A Bangladeshi court has sentenced 16 people to death for burning to death a female Bangladeshi student after she reported to the authorities sexual assault against her.
The sentence comes six months after the 19-year-old student identified as Nusrat Jahan Rafi was killed.
Nasrat had complained to the police about being sexually harassed, implicating her school principal Siraj Ud Doula.
The headteacher is also among the individuals who were convicted and sentenced.
Banaj Kumar Muzumdar, who is the police spokesman, said that the school principal contacted a number of people to carry out the murder of the teenager.
On April 6, the teenager was lured from her class to a roof where she found a group of men waiting for her.
They gagged her, doused her with kerosene and set her alight.
The case surprised critics of Bangladeshi criminal-justice system with the record time in which it was conducted in a country where such cases take ages.
Prosecutor Hafez Ahmed told members of the press that the case was proof that nobody in the country could get away with murder.
Scores of local law enforcement officers were found to have conspired to prevent the suspects from being brought to justice.
The officers are said to have embarked on a campaign of misinformation saying that Nusrat Jahan Rafi had committed suicide.