Man arrested over rape
Police yesterday arrested a man in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila for allegedly abducting and raping a 13-year-old girl on Tuesday.
The arrestee is Mohammed Raju, 22, of the district’s Pirganj upazila.
Ashikur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Thakurgaon Police Station, said the victim’s father filed a case against Raju yesterday.
According to the case statement, Raju was a family friend of the victim. On Tuesday, Raju went to the girl’s school and requested her teachers to grant her leave. In the leave application, Raju claimed that her grandmother fell sick and her condition was rapidly deteriorating.
Raju then took the girl to his relative’s house in Dinajpur’s Bochaganj upazila. Confining her at the house, Raju raped the girl throughout the day. He later fled the scene, the case statement added.
On information, members of the victim’s family went to the Bochaganj and rescued her from the house.
The girl was sent to Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital for medical tests.
OC Ashikur said Raju would be placed before a court today.
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