3 arrested on rape charge
Three youths were arrested here yesterday on charge of raping a teenage girl on Saturday.
The arrestees are Momin Miah, 25, of Chandpur district, Khukon Miah, 34, of Kalenga Koralitila village under Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar district and Hanif Miah, 24, of Brahmanbaria district. All of them are CNG run three-wheeler drivers.
According to police, the 14-year-old victim, who served as a domestic help in the capital, came to Moulvibazar from Dhaka by a bus on Saturday. When she took a rickshaw from the bus stand to go to her uncle's house in Sunapur area of the town, the three culprits started to follow her.
As the rickshaw reached Kodupur area on Dhaka-Moulvibazar highway, the youths took her to Barshijura eco-park near the town forcibly and gangraped her.
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