A ninth grader has allegedly been raped and thus impregnated by her father and stepbrother in Gazipur city.
The 16-year-old girl filed a case against her father Jubayer Khan, 40, a resident of Guabari in Jaintapur upazila of Sylhet, and his son Nasir Uddin, 18, on Wednesday, said Konabari police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abu Siddik.
The law enforcers arrested the two early Thursday and during primary interrogation they confessed to committing the crime, he said.
They were produced before a court in Gazipur which sent them to jail.
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The police official said Jubayer, an assistant of a mason by profession, was living with his second wife at a rented house in Harinachala area of Konabari along with their son Nasir.
Jubayer brought his daughter to Gazipur from Sylhet last year and got her admitted to a local school.
On the night of June 15, he raped the girl in absence of other family members and continued raping her at different times, the OC said.
Meanwhile, Nasir, a 10th grader of another school in Gazipur, also raped the girl at times, he said.
The girl, now a seven-month pregnant, informed the matter to her mother who advised her to file a case in this regard, he added.