Schoolgirl killed after gang rape
A school girl was strangulated to death reportedly after being violated by a gang of stalkers at Shimulia village in Charghat upazila of Rajshahi district yesterday.
Police recovered the body of the victim, a class X student of Shimulia High School, from a lichi orchard -- some 250 yards of her house at around 9:00am.
“A scarf was wound around her neck. The neck was broken in such a way that led us to believe that she was strangulated to death. Her clothes were torn, there were marks and evidence to suggest that she had been raped”, said M Shamsul Haq, officer-in-charge (OC) of Charghat Police Station.
According to the victim's family and police, the girl went missing since she went out of home around 8:00pm for attending an Islamic 'Mehfil' on Friday with her elder sister and cousins.
About 100 yards from home, the victim turned back saying she was not feeling good, said her sister.
Next morning, neighbours discovered her body and informed police and the victim's family.
Police arrested the victim's classmate Mohammad Rubel and Riaz Hossain Rinku, an HSC student, who along with some others were widely blamed in the village for stalking the victim and other girls.
The victim's father was fainting frequently since he learnt the matter. He told reporters that he complained to the parents of the stalkers and rebuked Rinku for stalking her daughter a couple of months ago.
Rubel and Rinku started roaming around their house unnecessarily for last several days, said victim's mother. “We did not know they were planning to kill my daughter. How brute can be the human being?” she lamented.
Breaking down in tears, headmaster of the school Wahiduzzaman said they wish the law enforcers will bring the culprits under justice as soon as possible.
The victim's father lodged a case accusing four persons including the two arrestees with Charghat Police Station.
The OC M Shamsul Haq said though the arrestees denied their involvement in the incident, the police will seek to take them on remand.
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