Before she was raped, Joba (not her real name) lived the life of a regular homemaker and bore the identity of a wife, a mother and a woman of her own volition.

A Noakhali court today sentenced 10 people to death and six others to life imprisonment in a case filed over raping a housewife in Subarnachar upazila on the night of the 11th parliamentary election on December 30, 2018