A court in Netrokona has sentenced madrasa teacher Aman Ullah Mahmudy, also known as Sagar, to death for raping and impregnating an 11-year-old madrasa student. He was also fined Tk 1 lakh.
On Wednesday (11 November), around 1 pm, Netrokona District and Sessions Judge and Child Violence Prevention Tribunal Judge Abdus Salam announced the verdict in the presence of the accused.
Earlier, on 28 October, after hearing the arguments, the court fixed 11 November for the pronouncement of the judgment. During the arguments, the main accused Sagar had pleaded to be acquitted in exchange for transferring his last remaining 12 decimals of land. The court rejected his application.
According to the case statement (ejahar), in November 2025, Aman Ullah Mahmudy Sagar, the director and teacher of a women’s Qawmi madrasa in Panchhat Borbari village of Kaitail Union in Madan upazila, called the student to the madrasa and raped her. He threatened to kill her if she told anyone. Out of fear, the child kept the matter secret. Eventually, she stopped going to the madrasa.
Later, family members became suspicious after noticing physical changes in the child. When she was taken to a doctor in April this year, her pregnancy was confirmed. Following the incident, on 23 April, the child’s mother filed a case as the plaintiff against teacher Sagar and his brother Maimun alias Mamun Mia at Madan Police Station.
After the case was filed, it sparked widespread outrage and condemnation across the country. The then RAB-14 began a shadow investigation. Later, on 6 May, the main accused teacher Sagar was arrested from Gouripur in Mymensingh. Police took him on three days’ remand for interrogation.
While the trial was ongoing, the victim child gave birth to a baby girl on 2 July at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital.
On the court’s order, a CID team collected the newborn’s DNA sample and sent it to Dhaka for testing. The DNA test report showed a 99.99 percent match between the newborn and teacher Sagar’s DNA.
After receiving the DNA report, the investigating officer, SI Aktaruzzaman of Madan Police Station, submitted the charge sheet to the court on 27 August. In the charge sheet, the main accused Aman and his brother Mamun Mia were both named as accused.
Arguments from both the prosecution and the defense were completed on 28 October. On that day, the court fixed 11 November as the date for pronouncing the verdict.