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Conviction Islamic institutions and contexts Quranic-school and daara systems Charghat, Rajshahi, Bangladesh · 2026

Bangladesh: mosque imam sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a twelve-year-old child from the community he taught

Record class

Core record

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

imam and hafizia-madrasa Arabic teacher, Charghat upazila

Organization

mosque and hafizia madrasa, Charghat upazila, Rajshahi

Spiritual nexus

A child from the imam's own community, under the religious-instructional authority he held as both the mosque's imam and the local hafizia madrasa's Arabic teacher.

  • Guru or spiritual-teacher authority
  • Pastoral or clerical authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2026-05-16 · trial judgment

    Women and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal-2, Rajshahi. The tribunal convicted Md. Shahjahan Gazi (60), the local mosque's imam and a teacher of Arabic to children at a hafizia madrasa, of raping a twelve-year-old child, and sentenced him to life imprisonment with hard labour, a fine of 100,000 taka, and three months' further imprisonment (simple) in default. In 2018 the imam took the child behind his house while no one else was present, raped the child, and threatened to kill the child if the assault were disclosed.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • standing as the local mosque's imam and children's Arabic teacher
  • threats to kill if the child disclosed

Primary record

Sources

national press trial verdict report 'শিশু ধর্ষণ মামলায় ইমামের যাবজ্জীবন সশ্রম কারাদণ্ড' ["Life imprisonment with hard labour for imam in child rape case"], Banglanews24, 16 May 2026.

Bangla-language report of the tribunal verdict naming the imam, his dual roles as mosque imam and hafizia-madrasa Arabic teacher, sentence terms, and the underlying 2018 facts.

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