Man sent to jail for rape of minor
A court in Feni yesterday sent a youth to jail on charge of raping a minor girl in Fulgazi upazila.
The accused is Touhidur Rahman, 26, of Uttar Sreepur village in the same upazila, said police.
Quoting the victim's family members, police said the 10-year-old victim is a student of class five of a local primary school. On Friday morning, she was playing at the school's playground.
At that time, Touhidur took the girl to a nearby abandoned building luring her to give gift and raped her. When the girl started screaming, locals rushed to the spot and rescued her. However, Touhidur fled the scene.
Returning home, the victim's mother filed a rape case with Fulgazi Police Station against Touhidur on Friday night. Hours later, police arrested the accused, said Mohammad Kutub Uddin, officer-in-charge of the police station.
Yesterday, the accused was produced before a court that sent him to jail. The victim was sent to hospital for medical test, said the OC.
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