A court in Netrokona has sentenced a woman to one year’s rigorous imprisonment for filing a false rape case that led to the incarceration of a man for about two months.
The convict, Lipi Akter, 39, was also fined Tk 5,000, with an additional three months in jail in default of payment, said Public Prosecutor Advocate Nurul Kabir Rubel.
Judge AKM Emdadul Haque of the Netrokona Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal delivered the verdict on Tuesday afternoon in the presence of Lipi Akter.
According to court records, Lipi, a resident of Bikramshri village in Barhatta upazila, filed a rape case against Kamal Uddin, a resident of the same village, in 2008, claiming that she was eight months pregnant.
Police subsequently arrested Kamal, who remained in jail for about two months.
After Lipi gave birth to a child, police conducted a DNA test to establish the child's paternity. The test results showed that Kamal was not the child's biological father.
Following a lengthy legal process, the court acquitted Kamal of the rape charge in 2019.