DHAKA, Feb 16, 2022 (BSS) - A special tribunal here today framed charges against the sole accused in a case lodged over rape and subsequently murder of a schoolgirl in capital's Kalabagan area on January 7, 2021.

   Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7 Judge AM Julfikar Hayat framed charges against Fardin Iftekhar Dihan, 18, and set March 16 for start recording depositions of the witnesses. 

   According to the case documents, Dihan called and took the victim, 17, an O-level student of Mastermind School, to his Lake Circus Road flat and raped her there on January 7. As the girl fell sick due to rape, Dihan along with his friends took her to nearby Anwar Khan Modern Hospital, where the attending doctors declared her dead. 

   The hospital authorities informed the police and on the request of the law enforcing agency, they detained Dihan and handed him over to police. 

   Dihan already gave his statement under section 164 in the case.

   Police on November 8, 2021, filed a charge-sheet against Dihan, making 55 people as witnesses in the case.