It’s another incident of brutality. It’s another story of a beast where a four-year-old girl was killed after violation by a jailbird in the city’s Badda on Sunday.
The city people came to know about the incident after the police recovered the body of Tanha, 4, daughter of Mehedi, from inside a toilet of a tin-shed house adjacent to Abul Hotel in Adarshanagar area.
And obviously it was another big shock to the countrymen after the Bogra incident.
The members of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested the suspected rapist-cum-killer, identified as M. Shipon, 35, in connection with the recovery of girl’s body on Sunday night.
Police said the baby at first was taken to the room of the rapist in the name of giving food and then she was strangulated to death.
Officer-in-Charge of Badda Police Station MA Jalil said that the body bore strangulation mark on its neck and injury marks on both legs. “The arrested suspect Shipon confessed in police custody that he raped Tanha and killed her when she was screaming,” the OC said.
The girl was found unconscious next to a toilet at Badda on Sunday night and was declared dead after she was taken to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, said Kawser Ahmed, Assistant Sub-Inspector of the police station.
“The child lived with her parents near the scene of the crime,” he said. “An initial investigation suggests she was allured by saying that she would be given food. Then she was raped,” the ASI said.
Police have seized Tanhas blood-shine dress, rapist’s lungi, genji, a bed sheet as crime evidence. A case was filed with the police station in this connection. The body was sent toe DMCH morgue for an autopsy.
Meanwhile, briefing Joint Commissioner (DB) Abdul Baten said the perpetrator reportedly raped the minor girl after alluring her with food. “The detectives started shadow investigation alongside local police station soon after the incident came to light,” he said.
Tanha had been residing at a rented house of Adarshanagar with her parents. Arrested Shipon was one of their neighbours, living in a rented room with his wife.
Shipon had been working as a day labourer, since recently being released from jail after five years. When Tanha was returning home on Thursday crossing Shipon’s room, he pulled Tanha inside his room alluring her with food, and then he allegedly raped her, according to police.
As Tanha cried out for help, Shipon strangled her, and after the girl died, fled the scene throwing the body of Tanha into a toilet of the house.
Mehedi, the father of the ill-fated girl filed a case with Badda police station accusing the arrested Shipon, said Abdul Jalil, the OC of the police station.
