A Patuakhali tribunal today sentenced three teenage boys to 10 years' imprisonment for the rape of 17-year-old girl in Dumki upazila of Patuakhali. The victim, daughter of a July uprising martyr, took her own life around a month after the rape incident.

According to case document, all the convicts are aged 17.

In addition, two of the convicts got three more years in jail under the Pornography Control Act for filming the incident. The court ordered that the additional sentence will begin after the first one ends.

Judge Nilufar Shirin of the Patuakhali Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal delivered the verdict around 11:00am in the presence of the accused.

After the verdict, they were sent to Jessore Juvenile Correctional Centre.

Confirming the judgement, Public Prosecutor Abdullah Al Noman said, "After examining 16 witnesses, the tribunal handed down the sentences under the relevant laws. As the convicts are juveniles, the punishments were determined following the children act," he added.

According to the case statement, the victim was an HSC second-year student. On March 18 this year, while returning house after visiting her father's grave in South Pangashia village, the girl was raped.

The next day, the victim filed a case with Dumki Police Station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act. She died by suicide on April 26 at a house in Dhaka.

The victim's father was killed in police firing during the July uprising last year in Mohammadpur.