05 May,2011 04:27 PM IST | | ANI
A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 11 people to life imprisonment for gang raping a teenage Hindu girl during post-election violence in 2001.
Six of those convicted were in court to hear their sentences, but five are still on the run and were convicted and sentenced in their absence, The BBC reports.
A judicial commission in April concluded that more than 200 Hindu women had been raped following the 2001 parliamentary election.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its Jamaat-e-Islami allies won the elections. All of those convicted were members of the BNP, which is now in the opposition.
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Many terrorized Hindu families were forced to flee Muslim-majority Bangladesh at the time to India, the commission said.
