Schoolgirl murdered after 'rape'
An eight-year-old girl was killed after being “raped” in Gabtala village of the district's Ashashuni upazila on Sunday evening.
Police recovered the body of Sushmita Das, daughter of Prashanto Das of the village, from a septic tank around 11:00pm.
A youth was arrested in this connection.
Prashanto said Sushmita, a class-II student at Gabtala Government Primary School, used to go to their neighbour Nirmal Sarker's house every afternoon. Nirmal's daughter Ambika Sarker, a college student, was Sushmita's tutor.
As Ambika was not at home on Sunday evening, her brother Joyprakash Sarker began to teach Sushmita.
Prashanto alleged that no one was at the house at that time and Joyprakash raped his daughter.
At one stage, Sushmita lost consciousness. Thinking that she died, Joyprakash dumped the body in a pond, he quoted Joyprakash as saying.
Later, villagers not finding her anywhere decided to search in the pond. Hearing this, Joyprakash took the body from the pond and dumped it in the septic tank, he said.
A case was filed with Ashashuni Police Station yesterday.
Biplob Kumar, OC of the police station, said Joyprakash admitted that he was involved in the crime.
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