A Tangail court will deliver its verdict on Monday in a case over rape and murder of college student Zakia Sultana Rupa on August 25 last year.
After completing both sides' arguments, Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Abul Hossain fixed the date on February 5, reports UNB.
Rupa, 27, student of Dhaka Ideal Law College, was gang raped and killed in the running bus on on August 25 last year while returning to Mymensingh from Bogra.
Police recovered her bloodstained body from Panchmail area of Madhupur upazila on that night.
Following post-mortem, she was buried at the town central graveyard as unclaimed body.
Later, victim's relatives identified her seeing her photograph.
On August 28, police arrested the five accused from Mymensingh in this connection.
On August 31, police exhumed the body of Rupa and handed it over to her family for burial in a proper manner.
On January 23, the court concluded the recording of depositions of witnesses in the case when 27 witnesses out of total 32 testified before the court.
On October 25 last, a court accepted the chargesheet against the accused -- bus driver Habibur, its supervisor Safar Ali, and helpers Shamim, Akram and Jahangir -- in the case.
