4 accused land in jail
A court here on Tuesday sent four youths, arrested in connection with a case for trying to rape a madrasa girl on Monday, to jail after police produced them before the court.
The arrestees are Sarwar Hossain, 19, Mohammad Noman, 20, Hasan Gazi, 19, and Mohammad Nazmul, 20, of Kumirmara village of the upazila.
Earlier, villagers caught the four while allegedly trying to violate a Class IX student in Dawlatpur area in Kalapara upazila on Monday afternoon and handed them over to police.
Later, the father of the victim girl filed a case with Kalapara Police Station in this regard the same evening.
Police produced the arrestees before a court around 11:00am on Tuesday. After hearing, the court sent them to jail, police said.
Quoting the victim’s family members and locals, police said a gang of seven to eight youths waylaid the girl near Tilar Rasta area while she was returning home from her madrasa on Tuesday noon and tried to rape her.
Hearing her cry for help, villagers rushed the spot and caught four of the culprits and handed them over to police.
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