Rickshaw-puller arrested for ‘raping’ minor girl

Police on Tuesday arrested a young rickshaw-puller for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl in the city's Purbail area on Monday, reports UNB.

The arrestee is rickshaw-puller Faruk, son of Abdul Zabbar of Fulbari in Dinajpur district.

Police said Faruk had been staying at a rented house in the area where the minor girl was also living with her parents on the same premises.

They said the girl was alone at their home when her parents, both assistants to a local mason, went out for work in the morning.

At noon, Faruk allured the girl out of their home and took her to the first floor of a nearby two-storey building in the area and violated her there.

Hearing her screams, locals rushed in and took the victim to Shaheed Tazuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital.

Faruk, however, managed to flee the scene.

Later, police arrested Faruk from Mirpur area in the capital, a day after the victim's mother filed a case with Pubail police station, said Nazmul Haque Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge of the police station.