Gang-rape of Minor in N’ganj: Accused BCL leader arrested
A Bangladesh Chhatra League leader, who was accused of gang-raping a ninth-grader in Narayanganj, was arrested on Saturday in Brahmanbaria in possession of Phensedyl.
Abu Sufian Sohan (24) is vice president of BCL’s Tarabo municipal unit under Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj.
Police said Sufian and some of his associates forcibly picked up the girl on a microbus from Gondhrobopur bus stand area of Rupganj upazila on Thursday afternoon. They took the girl to a house in Ruposhi area.
The alleged criminals kept the girl confined for two days in the house and gang-raped her multiple times.
Later on Saturday, the victim’s mother filed a case against five, of whom two were unnamed. Police arrested Towsib Miah (22) and Afzal Hossain (24) the same evening, but Sufian went into hiding.
Police in Ashuganj of Brahmanbaria arrested Abu Sufian with 86 bottles of Phensedyl on Saturday, said Rafiqul Haque, inspector (operations) of Rupganj Police Station.
Another case was filed against him with Ashuganj Police Station on the charge of drug possession, for which he was sent to jail in Brahmanbaria. When Narayanganj police came to know about the arrest, Abu Sufian was shown arrested in the rape case as well, said police sources.
Meanwhile, hundreds of students of different local schools yesterday formed a human chain in Gondhrobopur area on Rupshi-Kanchan road demanding that the rapists be brought to book.
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