2-year-old raped in Bagerhat

Four people have been sued for raping a two-year-old and a fifth-grader in Bagerhat and Thakurgaon. 

In Bagerhat’s Mollahat upazila, Fahad Khandakar, 18, of Udaypur Arua Kandi village, was sued on Sunday over the rape of a two-year-old girl. 

Mollahat police said on October 22 the mother of the victim took her to see the accused’s mother as they were neighbours. 

Luring the child by chocolates, Fahad took her to his room and raped her, said Officer-in-Charge Kazi Golam Kabir of Mollahat Police Station. 

After the baby was returned to her mother, she found her child was bleeding from her genitals, and confronted Fahad’s mother, the officer said. 

As the accused’s mother requested her not to go to police, she remained quiet initially, the OC said, adding that the child was taken to Mollahat Health Complex and was later moved to Bagerhat Sadar Hospital. 

Seeing the victim’s condition deteriorating, the mother finally filed a case against Fahad with Mollahat Police Station on Sunday. 

Police said they were trying to arrest the accused. 

In Thakurgaon, a case was filed against Jahidul Islam, 18, Md Jashim, 22, and Md Rashed, 18, of Kanikoshalgaon in Sadar upazila on Sunday for raping a class-five student. 

Jahidul and Jashim are brothers, said Officer-in-Charge Chittaranjan Roy of Ruhea Police Station. 

Quoting the victim’s family, police said Jahidul and his friend Rashed abducted the girl while she was going to a toilet outside her home around 1:00am on Sunday. 

They took her to a nearby bamboo cluster and raped her multiple times, said the OC, adding that the duo left the girl in her front yard around 4:00am and fled the scene. 

The father of the girl filed a case against them and Jahidul’s brother Jashim with Ruhea Police Station in the evening. 

The victim was sent to Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital for a medical test, said OC Chittaranjan, adding that the accused were on the run and police were conducting drives to arrest them. 

Meanwhile, Police yesterday arrested a former Chhatra League leader who is among the five men accused of raping a woman in an isolated char of Bhola on Saturday evening.

Nazrul Islam, 30, the ex-president of Sakuchia Union unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in Monpura upazila, was detained at a house in Sakuchia village, said Md Shakhawat Hossain, officer-in-charge of Monpura Police Station. 

The woman was gang-raped by four men in front of her two-year-old son on Saturday evening when she was returning home from Char Fasson by a speedboat. 

Four passengers of the boat forced her into the forest of Charpilai and raped her there. Nazrul, who is also the boat owner, came to the scene later and extorted Tk 3,000 from the four passengers before he himself raped her, according to police.

The victim filed a case against six people including Nazrul the next day. The rest are passengers Bilal Hossain, 35, Kiran, 26, Rased Palwan, 25, Shahid Khan, 22, and boat driver Riaj Hossain, 25.