Barely two months after a Garo woman was gang-raped in a moving microbus while returning home from her workplace in the city, a 12-year-old indigenous schoolgirl was reportedly raped by a young man in city’s Bhatara area on Tuesday. The incidents came into the light on Wednesday when the victim was admitted to the one stop crisis centre of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for medical test. Nurul Muttakin, officer-in-charge of Bhatara Police Station, said the 12-year-old indigenous girl went out of her residence at Nayanagar under Bhatara thana to go to school around 9:30 am.After returning home around 5 pm, she informed her mother about the matter saying that Alamin, 22, allegedly raped her. The incident is believed to have taken place between 9:30 am to 4.30 pm. Later, the victim’s mother filed a case with Bhatara Police Station at night. Meanwhile, the victim was admitted to the DMCH one stop crisis early Wednesday. However, police could not arrest the rapist as he managed to flee the scene.
