Death penalty replaced by imprisonment till death

03 August 2015, Nirapad News: The Supreme Court on Monday replaced the death penalty of a convict to imprisonment till death over rape and murder of a seven-year-old child in Manikganj.

A four-member bench of appellate division, led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha passed the order after hearing a plea filed by convict Shukkur Ali.

On July 12, 2001, a Manikganj court sentenced 14-year-old Shukkur Ali to death for raping and killing a girl in 1999.