A cover-up of infant’s rape has failed as police arrested a 20-year-old man, who is alleged to have raped the child, prompting the child’s father to file a case yesterday.
Quoting the child’s family, police said pedophile Alamgir Hossain lured the child with chocolates and took her into an abandoned house on June 27.
He forced himself on the child, when she cried out, locals came forward only to find her bleeding.
She was soon taken to Bhurungamari Upazila Health Complex. After her condition got worse, she was shifted to Kurigram General Hospital.
Locals Hobibor Rahman and Khokon said mason Mojibor Rahman, Hazrat Ali, Abul Hossain, Omed Ali and Abdur Razzak held a meeting at Hazrat Ali’s house on July 2.
The victim’s father Abu Bakar Siqqiq was then made to sign a deed in which it was said that he would not file any rape case in exchange for five decimals of land from the pedophile’s family.
Abu Bakar said: “Local elders had been pressuring him not to file a case and so I did not muster the courage to do so, but now that the police have arrested the rapist, I, emboldened, filed this case.”
Residential doctor at Bhurungamari Upazila Health Complex Dr Abu Sayed confirmed the authenticity of the incident and said: “We have referred the child to the Sadar hospital as her condition was critical.”
Bhurungamari police station Officer-in-Charge Hasan Imam said: “Locally influential people had been trying to cover up this rape through a secret arbitration.”
As it came to light, we arrested the rapist, when the victim’s father filed the rape case.”
