Girl raped after kidnap

Police are yet to arrest the five people accused of kidnapping, raping and forcefully converting a 13-year-old girl to Islam in Tongi, even though two months have gone by since the abduction.
Following a phone call the girl was able to make to her mother whilst in captivity, law enforcers rescued her on May 30, 55 days after the abduction, from a remote house in Konabari of Cox's Bazar's Chakaria upazila.
She told a magistrate later that her neighbour Manik, his younger brother Javed, cousins Faruk and Kaiser, and uncle Harun-ur-Rashid abducted her when she was returning home from school on April 6, said Sub-Inspector Abdul Aziz of Tongi Police Station.
Aziz said, “Manik 'married' her calling in a kazi [marriage registrar]. She was forced to sign a paper where she was renamed Ayesha.”
The five along with Harun's wife had leased two rooms next to the victim's home one and a half months before the kidnap and they disappeared on April 6, said neighbours.
They said the youths called themselves fish traders but Sub-Inspector Aziz claimed that they were members of a gang of thieves.
Officer-in-Charge Ranjit Barua of Chakaria Police Station in Cox's Bazar said they had found only the girl and Manik's ailing mother in the remote house she was confined to and that was why they could not arrest anyone.
The girl secured A+ in the recent Primary Education Terminal Exams.