A court in Naogaon on Sunday sentenced two people to life imprisonment in a case filed for kidnapping and raping a woman on the pretext of marriage in 2001.

District and Sessions Judge Md. Mehedi Hasan Talukder of Naogaon Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2, delivered the judgement this afternoon.

The convicts are Isahak Ali, 50, and Tuku Sardar, 52, of Chak-Abarsh village of Naogaon Sadar upazila.

The court also fined them Tk 1 lakh each, in default to suffer six months more in rigorous imprisonment and ordered that the fine be paid to the rape victim.

Later, the convicts were sent to jail.

According to court sources, on March 12, 2001, a woman from Chak-Abarsh village in Sadar upazila was kidnapped under the pretext of marriage and raped by Ishaq Ali and Tuku Sardar from the same village.