Teacher Held on Rape Charge in Gaibandha
Students enforce hartal demanding release
Students of Dharmapur Abdul Jabber Degree College blocked Gaibandha-Sundarganj road and enforced a half-day hartal in the area under Sundarganj upazila yesterday demanding unconditional release of the college's vice-principal.
Detective Branch of police arrested Vice-Principal Mahbuber Rahman Bablu on September 15, suspecting his involvement in rape and murder of a girl.
Police recovered the decomposed body of the girl, Fency Begum, 8, daughter of Firoz Mia of Kalirkhamar village in the upazila, from a septic tank on the college campus on September 8.
Victim's father filed a case with Sundarganj police station the same day. The case was later transferred to the detective branch for investigation.
The agitating students blocked the road by placing logs and brought out a procession demanding immediate release of their teacher. Vehicular movement on the road remained halted for seven hours from 6:00am, causing immense sufferings to the passengers.
Schools, colleges, shops and private banks in Dharmapur area were shut during hartal hours. Local people also joined the agitation demanding release of the college teacher.
Addressing a protest rally on the college campus, the student said Vice-Principal Mahbuber Rahman Bablu was in no way involved in the killing. “Law enforcers are trying to implicate our teacher in a false case. He is innocent. We demand his unconditional release,” the students said.
College Principal Saidur Rahman, teachers Golam Sadek Lebu, Sunil Kumar Barman and Nihar Ranjan Roy also addressed the rally. They urged the law enforcers to arrest the real culprits involved the rape and murder of Fency.
Police quoting autopsy report said the girl was strangled after rape. After the incident, the criminals dumped the body into the septic tank, they added.
The college reopened after Ramadan and Eid holidays on September 8. As bad smell was coming from the septic tank, students informed the police of the matter. Police went to the campus, removed the slab of the septic tank and found the girl's decomposed body inside of the tank.
Police quoted case statement as saying that Fency went to a union parishad office near Dhamapur Bazar on September 4 to see the distribution of rice under VGF programme and since then she remained missing.
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