Man held for attempt to rape minor
Police arrested a youth on charge of attempting to rape a five-year-old girl in Satkhira Sadar upazila early yesterday.
Sharifuzzaman, 22, of Kalaroa upazila in Satkhira, is a student of Satkhira Polytechnic Institute, police said.
Mostafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Satkhira Police Station, said when the victim was playing in front of her house around 1:00pm on Saturday, the youth from a hostel nearby had allegedly attempted to rape her.
The child’s mother rushed there hearing her daughter’s scream and rescued her, said the OC, adding that the youth fled the scene then.
Following a case filed by the child’s mother, police arrested Sharifuzzaman in the area after midnight, he said. “The child was sent to Satkhira Sadar Hospital for a medical test.”
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