Challenged girl killed after rape
A mentally challenged girl was raped before she was strangled to death in Chawkbazar area of Old Dhaka on Friday night.
Ten-year-old Moni Akter lay cold on a road near her tin-shed house at Islambagh around 11:00pm.
Locals took her to Mitford Hospital where doctors declared her dead, said Azizul Haque, officer-in-charge of Chawkbazar Police Station.
The girl was raped before being choked to death, said sources at Sir Salimullah Medical College morgue.
Police arrested a mason named Delwar, who lives at a mess next to the victim's house, in connection with the incident.
Moni, daughter of boatman Chan Mia, had her evening meal, and went out of their rented house for a stroll around 8:00pm on Friday.
"She did not return by an hour. She would rarely come home late," victim's mother Renu Begum told this correspondent yesterday.
Renu then went to the house of her sister Nazma at Paschim Islambagh to enquire about Moni. She was told that Moni had left Nazma's house around 8:15pm.
Renu and her relatives searched for Moni till 9:30pm but couldn't find her.
Around 10:00pm, two sons of Renu's landlord told her that they saw a body lying in front of a closed shop near Beribandh.
They then rushed to the place and found Moni's body in a plastic sack. The victim's mouth was stuffed with a bundle of paper, and pieces of cane were wrapped around her neck.
Police said since the area is densely populated, the rapist might have killed the girl for fear of being recognised.
Renu said her daughter was mentally challenged and didn't talk much.
Moni's sister Sonia said Delwar would occasionally enquire about Moni.
Police arrested Delwar around Friday midnight.
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