BSS, Rangpur :
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-13 arrested an alleged rapist on charge of raping a physically challenged teenage girl of village Mohishamuri in Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat from Savar area in Dhaka on Thursday afternoon.
The arrested person is Md Rahim Badsha, 30, of the same area in Lalmonirhat district.
As per a rape case filed by parents of the victim with Kaliganj police station in Lalmonirhat on February 28, 2022, the elite force started a shadow investigation into the case.
“On a tip off, an operational team of RAB-13 conducted a raid at Savar area and arrested the alleged rapist,” said a press release issued here today by Senior Assistant Director (Media) of RAB-13 Flight Lieutenant Mahmud Bashir Ahmed.
“During interrogation, the arrested man admitted that he raped the victim forcefully on February 21, 2022 at her house in absence of her parents who were working in a nearby crop field,” the release added.
The elite force handed him over to Kaliganj police station in Lalmonirhat, the release added.