A Chattogram court on Wednesday sentenced prime accused Abir Ali to death for killing five-year-old girl Alina Islam Ayat four years back.

Judge of Chattogram Additional Metropolitan Session Judge Court-6 Muhammad Ali Akkas handed down the punishment in presence of the convict.

According to the prosecution, Ayat went missing on November 14, 2022 on her way to a mosque where she used to learn Arabic at Bandartila area in Chattogram.

The victim’s father, Sohel Rana, lodged a general diary with the local police station after she went missing.

Abir, a former tenant of the victim’s family, kidnapped the girl for ransom and strangled the girl to death as he failed to secure a place to keep her hostage.

She later chopped her body into six pieces after taking to a residence on Akmal Ali Road in the city and dumped the body wrapped in two bags in the sea in the city’s Kattali area.

Ayat’s body parts were found from different parts of the city on November 30 and December 1, 2022.

On November 9, 2023, Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) officer of the case Monoj Kumar Dey submitted chargesheet against Abir Ali