Murder, rape of child: One lands in jail, 4 in correction centre
Pabna Mon Apr 21, 2025 12:01 AM
A Pabna court yesterday sent a man to jail and four others to a juvenile correction centre on charge of killing a minor girl after rape in Natore last week.
The accused, Md Sohel Rana, 25, and four others, aged between 14 and 17, are of Baraigram upazila of Natore.
Police said eight-year-old victim was returning home alone from her grandmother’s home on April 14 evening. The suspects stopped and forcibly took her to a nearby banana orchard. They strangled her after raping her and dumped the body in a nearby village in Pabna’s Chatmohar upazila, said Md Monjurul Alam, officer-in-charge of Chatmohar Police Station, citing the suspects’ confessional statements.
Her face bore burn injuries as chemicals were poured onto the face, said the OC.
On information, police recovered the body on April 15. The victim’s mother filed a case with the Chatmohar Police Station against unidentified people the same day.
In primary investigation, police found the involvement of the five and arrested them on Saturday night. During interrogation, they confessed to the offence, said the OC.
The five suspects were produced before the Judicial Magistrate’s Court in Pabna yesterday. They made confessional statements, the police officer added.
