SI arrested for 'raping' teenager

A sub-inspector of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station under Dhaka Metropolitan Police has been arrested in a case filed for allegedly raping a teenage girl.

Md Faruk Hossain, the deputy commissioner of media and public relations division of DMP, confirmed the matter to Jago News on Tuesday evening.

He said SI Khairul Alam, 32, was arrested following the case was lodged with Gulshan Police Station in the capital under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.

Later, police produced him before the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Begum Mahmuda Akter, seeking a five-day remand while his lawyer sought bail.

After hearing both parties, the court asked police to interrogate him at the jail gate.

According to the case statement, the teenage girl met SI Khairul at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station a month ago when she went there to make a complaint against one of her friends.

Since then, he would phone her on different occasions to meet him.

As a sequel to, Khairul took her to a house at Niketan in the capital on Monday saying that he will resolve the complaint she made against the friend but instead, he violated her.

The SI also intimidated her not to disclose what happened with her, the victim alleged in the case statement.

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