A seven-year-old boy has allegedly been sodomised in the capital's Sabujbagh area on Thursday.
The victim has been admitted at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
DMCH outpost Inspector Mojammel Hossain said one Shahidul Islam, a listed criminal in the area, took the boy in his room and violated him around 12:30pm.
Family members later took him to the hospital and filled a case with Sabujbagh police station.
The accused is still on the run, said the police official.