Jubo League leader, 3 others rape girl in Madaripur

Police are looking for four people including a Jubo League leader of Madaripur’s Kalkini who gang raped an eighth grader on March 11. The accused are Elahi Kotpal, 35, Lalon Shikdar, 34, Khoka Shikdar, 30, Shawkat Shikdar, 32, all hailing from Jajira village. Khoka is the general secretary of Ramjanpur Union unit Jubo League. The case was filed on March 16 as the accused had threatened the victim's family with dire consequences. According to the case, the accused had long been giving indecent proposals to the victim. Angered by the girl’s refusal, they picked her up when she came out of her room to go to the toilet in the night of March 11. They took the girl to an abandoned room near the house and raped her successively. Locals rescued her the following day. The victim’s brother, seeking anonymity, said that they had been warned not to take her to hospital and threatened not to file a case. So they had to take her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for treatment. When contacted, Madaripur Additional Police Superintendent Sumon Deb hoped that the accused would be arrested soon.