bdnews24.com :
Police have detained 26 people in Bogra’s Dupchachia Upazila after a schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide over harassment.
The victim, 14-year-old Rafiza Akhter Shathi, hailed from the Upazila’s Zianagar village and was a ninth grade student at the local high school.
Police recovered the body around 7:30pm on Sunday, said Dupchachia Police Station OC Abdur Razzak.
“We heard allegations that one 19-year-old Yamin, from the neighbouring Heruganj village, had been harassing her. When a police team went to make an arrest the locals attacked them.”
Sub-inspectors, Nasiruzzaman, Rahim Uddin and Zakir Hossain, were injured in the attack, said the police officer.
A few hours later, a larger police team went to the village and arrested 26, he said.
Two cases have been filed over the incident-one by Shathi’s father accusing Yamin of provoking suicide and the other by police over obstruction of duty and the attack.
Police are still looking for Yamin, OC Razzak said.
Police have detained 26 people in Bogra’s Dupchachia Upazila after a schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide over harassment.
The victim, 14-year-old Rafiza Akhter Shathi, hailed from the Upazila’s Zianagar village and was a ninth grade student at the local high school.
Police recovered the body around 7:30pm on Sunday, said Dupchachia Police Station OC Abdur Razzak.
“We heard allegations that one 19-year-old Yamin, from the neighbouring Heruganj village, had been harassing her. When a police team went to make an arrest the locals attacked them.”
Sub-inspectors, Nasiruzzaman, Rahim Uddin and Zakir Hossain, were injured in the attack, said the police officer.
A few hours later, a larger police team went to the village and arrested 26, he said.
Two cases have been filed over the incident-one by Shathi’s father accusing Yamin of provoking suicide and the other by police over obstruction of duty and the attack.
Police are still looking for Yamin, OC Razzak said.
