Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday arrested the main accused in a case filed over the raping of a teen schoolgirl at Kathalia upazila in Jhalakathi district on December 12, 2023.
RAB-8 Headquarters media wing confirmed the matter in a press release on Tuesday morning.
A team of the elite force conducted a raid in Khulna and arrested the accused Md Sagor Khan, said the press release.
According to the press release, Sagor developed an affair with the 16-year-old girl promising that he will marry her. On December 12, Sagor called the girl to come at Patikhalghata union saying that he was going to meet her to his mother.
He then, took her to an abandoned house of Sukhranjan Sheel at Ward no-2 under the union where Sagor along with his cohorts violated the victim repeatedly, reads the press release.
After being absconded from the spot, the victim informed her family members about the incident.
Later, the victim's father lodged a case with Kathalia Police Station
Following the case, the elite personnel arrested the accused and legal action was underway in this regard, added the press release.
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