A union council chairman was accused of harassing a schoolgirl sexually at Debidwar upazila in Comilla district yesterday.
The accused was identified as Khorshed Alam, chairman of Gunai Nagar union council in the upazila.
The mother of the girl said she along with her daughter, a class nine student, went to physician in the morning. While she was returning home, the chairman came to them and called the girl for going with him by rickshaw. At one stage, he took the girl in the rickshaw and reached a house of one Sabuj in the area.
He confined her in a room of the house and raped her repeatedly leaving critically injured. Later, the girl managed to phone her mother when the chairman went to bathroom.
The mother disclosed the incident to locals and they went to Kotwali Model police station asking help. When the police were trying to rescue the girl, the chairman fled the scene and the girl reached home with the help of Sabuj.
When contacted, the chairman denied the allegation.
OC Shamsuzzaman said a case was filed in this connection while the girl was sent to hospital for medical test.