Police arrested a man from Benapole area under Sharsha upazila in Jashoe on Saturday for allegedly raping four primary schoolgirls and trying to rape two other schoolgirls.
The arrestee was identified as Aminur Rahman, 42, son of Abu Hanef of Ratanpur village at Kaliganj upazila of Satkhira district. He used to work at a house of Kharki area in the district town as a caretaker.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Jashore Kotwali Model Police Station Apurba Hasan said that on secret information, a team of police conducted a drive at Gatipara area in Benapole on Saturday noon and arrested Aminur with the help of Benapole port thana police. Aminur was trying to flee to India.
He was sent to the court on Sunday. A case was filed with Jashore Kotwali Model thana on May 1 in this connection.
According to the case statement, Aminur took the six girls of his employer’s house at different times from January last andraped four of them. He also tried to violate the two other girls and released them as they raised alarm.
In the latest incident, Aminur took a girl to the house at about 3:30pm on April 24 and violated her there. He attempted to violate two girls on April 27 in the house, but the girls saved them from the rapist on the day.
Later, the girls informed school teacher and family about the incident. Medical tests were completed on the four ‘rape’ victims in Jashore 250-Bed General Hospital and all of the six testified before a court on May 2.
