Staff Reporter :
An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped at a slum in the city’s Rupnagar on Sunday afternoon.
The girl was admitted to ‘One-Stop Crisis Centre (OCC)’ at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) at 3:00pm on Monday for treatment.
Police have detained a man in this connection.
The detained man was identified as Md Siddique, 35, a rickshaw-van puller o
Cholontika slum at Rupnagar and also a neighbour of the victim, said Rezaul Hasan, Officer-in-Charge of Rupnagar Police Station. Siddique took the girl to his room around 2:30pm on Sunday and raped her, the police official said quoting the victim’s family members.
Hearing screams of the girl, her mother and other neighbours rushed to the scene and rescued the girl, the OC said.
A case has been filed with Rupnagar Police Station in this connection.
An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped at a slum in the city’s Rupnagar on Sunday afternoon.
The girl was admitted to ‘One-Stop Crisis Centre (OCC)’ at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) at 3:00pm on Monday for treatment.
Police have detained a man in this connection.
The detained man was identified as Md Siddique, 35, a rickshaw-van puller o
Cholontika slum at Rupnagar and also a neighbour of the victim, said Rezaul Hasan, Officer-in-Charge of Rupnagar Police Station. Siddique took the girl to his room around 2:30pm on Sunday and raped her, the police official said quoting the victim’s family members.
Hearing screams of the girl, her mother and other neighbours rushed to the scene and rescued the girl, the OC said.
A case has been filed with Rupnagar Police Station in this connection.
