10 arrested on charge of raping schoolgirl

The law enforcers arrested 10 people at Ratanpur village in Ghatail upazila on Sunday on charge of violating a 13-year-old schoolgirl.

The arrestees are Jahangir Alam, 19, Azharul Islam, 25, Mohammad Sabuj, 20, Shariful Islam, 20, Rezaul Bappi, 18, Sirajul Shuvo, 20, Harun-ur-Rashid, 20, Mohammad Arif Hossain, 19, Masum Miah, 25, and Jihad Hossain, 19, of the area.

The victim's mother filed a case with Ghatail Police Station in this connection yesterday, said Mokhlesur Rahman, officer-in-charge of the PS.

According to the case statement, the seventh grader along with her mother went to a baishakhi fair on Ratanpur Government Primary School premises on April 16.

When she was returning alone from the fair in the evening, the accused picked up the girl from a local Eidgah field and raped her.

On Sunday, the victim's sister-in-law informed Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-3) about the matter.

A joint team of Rab and police raided the village on Sunday night and arrested the ten.

The arrestees were produced in a court that sent them to jail yesterday, said the OC, adding that the victim was sent to Tangail Medical College Hospital for medical test.