Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Dakshinkhan, Dhaka, Bangladesh · 2023

Bangladesh: madrasa teacher given life imprisonment for raping a student

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

madrasa teacher

Organization

Alkasim Markazut Tahfiz Madrasa

Spiritual nexus

The victim was a student enrolled at the madrasa where the defendant taught, subject to his religious teaching authority.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2023-02-01 · conviction and sentence

Court in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Hasmat Ali, a teacher at the Alkasim Markazut Tahfiz Madrasa, was convicted of raping a student in November 2019 and sentenced to life imprisonment with a fine.

Primary record

national news agency verdict and sentencing report 'Court jails madrasa teacher for life in case over rape of student', bdnews24.com, Feb. 2023.: Bangladeshi national news agency reporting the life sentence for the rape of a madrasa student.

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