Two held over Tangail 'rape'

Police on Thursday night arrested two people in a case filed in connection with a rape incident in Tangail's Gopalpur upazila.  

The victim's mother lodged the case with Gopalpur Police Station in the afternoon accusing three people after over two months of her 11-year-old girl rape.

Gopalpur police arrested one of the rape suspects Majnu Miah and their accomplice Joshna Begum, of Uttar Pathalia village. Other accused Sohag Miah, of the same village, is on the run.

In the case statement, the plaintiff said her fourth-grader daughter went to a neighbour house on April 16 to take milk they kept in the refrigerator of the house, police said.

Majnu and Sohag, co-villagers of the girl, raped her daughter confining her to the house with the help of Joshna Begum, wife of the house owner, alleged the plaintiff.

After the incident, the two threatened the girl's family that they would spread the video clip of the rape if they disclosed it. 

Under the circumstances, the family kept the girl at a relative house in Tangail town.

On June 9, Majnu and Sohag handed over the mobile phone memory card that contains the video clip of the rape to the girl's maternal grandmother, police said. 

Contacted, Hasan-Al-Mamun, officer-in-charge of Gopalpur Police Station, told The Daily Star that they yesterday produced the arrestees before the court that sent them to jail.

A senior judicial magistrate also recorded the victim's statement.

A medical examination of the victim was performed at Tangail General Hospital yesterday.

Police are conducting drives to arrest the other accused, the OC added.