Sherpur: A 12-year-old girl has reportedly become pregnant after being raped by a youth in Sherpur while another girl violated in Jashore.

Besides, two alleged rapists have been arrested in Panchagarh and Moulvibazar districts.    

In Sherpur, the primary schoolgirl has become five months’ pregnant after being raped by a neighbour, reports the UNB.

Police arrested the alleged rapist—Atiqur Rahman Rana, 20, son of Chan Mia of Baliadi village in the upazila—on Friday night after the matter came to the fore.

The arrest was made soon after the victim’s paternal grandfather filed a case with Nakla Police Station, said its officer-in-charge of Nakla Police Station Kazi Shah Newaz.

He said the girl had been vomiting for the past few days and she disclosed the matter upon interrogation by family members.

The OC said Rana raped the girl several times whereby she became pregnant.

They instantly arrested the accused after the case was filed, he said, adding that they produced him before the court on Saturday.

The victim was also sent to Sadar Hospital where her medical examination will be done on Sunday.

In Jashore, a five-year-old girl was ‘raped’ by her neighbour in Dharmatala Rail-line area of district town on Friday evening.

The suspected rapist is Shafiqul Islam Babu, 22, an auto-rickshaw driver. He has been on the run since the incident.

Victim’s mother said her daughter was playing beside their house in the evening. Babu lured her to his room with a promise to give her chocolates and raped her there.

He fled the scene when the victim screamed, she said.

As the news of the incident spread around, locals demonstrated demanding his punishment.

Meanwhile, police arrested the alleged rapist from Jhenaidah district on Saturday night.

A team of police picked Babu up from the house of his maternal grandfather in Kaliganj upazila, said Additional Superintendent of Police Ansar Uddin.

Earlier officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Station Apurba Hasan said they detained Babu’s mother for interrogation.

In Panchagarh, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a young man who allegedly raped a housewife in Dhantala village of Debiganj upazila on April 16.

The arrestee is Mohammad Shahin, son of Abdul Hamid of the village.

A Rab-13 press release said the accused has been on the run since the incident and he was arrested from his house following a tipoff.

The 19-year-old victim went to the house of Azizul Islam on April 16 morning to pay the installment of a loan taken from an NGO, where Shahin, a resident of a nearby house, violated her finding her alone there.

On April 24, the victim filed a case over the matter.

In Moulvibazar, police arrested the prime accused of a case filed over reported ‘gang-rape’ of a teenager in Kulaura upazila on Friday, 11 days after the incident.

The arrestee is Shukur Ali, 35, son of late Abdullah Mia of Gouri Shankar village in the upazila.

With this, six accused have so far been arrested over the incident.

Inspector (Investigation) of Kulaura Police Station Sanjay Chakrabarty said they arrested Shukur from an auto-rickshaw from Tengra Bazar in Rajnagar upazila at noon.  

While going to her village home at Bhukshimoil, Shukur who was an acquaintance to her abducted the victim from Kulaura municipality area around 7pm on April 15 and took her to Ashurighat in a CNG-run auto-rickshaw where six of his accomplices had already been waiting. Later, all of them took turns to rape the girl.

They also took video clip of the nefarious act and threatened to upload it on the internet if she does not comply with their call to physically engage with them in the future.
Victim’s mother filed a case with Kulaura Police Station accusing seven people.