A Noakhali court on Saturday sent a madrasa teacher to jail on charges of raping four boys in Chatkhil upazila of Noakhali.
The accused is Saiful Islam, 26, a teacher of Nurani section (second grade) at the madrasa in Chatkhil municipality.
A team of police arrested Saiful from his home in Shankarpur village on Friday night after the mother of a boy filed a case against him under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act with the police station, said police.
The parents of four boys came to the police station on Thursday and informed police about the incident.
However, the mother of one boy filed the case, as the teacher allegedly raped her son on Wednesday night inside the madrasa.
The boys are between 10 and 12 years old, said police.
After his arrest, the teacher was produced before the Noakhali Chief Judicial Magistrate Court on Friday afternoon.
Later, the court sent him to jail on Saturday.
In 2020, Bangladesh amended the law replacing the words "lifetime rigorous imprisonment" with "death penalty or lifetime rigorous imprisonment" for rape.
As per Section 377 of the Penal Code, whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.
