RAB arrests man over ‘raping’ schoolgirl after luring her with false marriage promise in Lalmonirhat

He has been apprehended in a case filed at Lalmonirhat’s Hatribandha Police Station

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested in Rangpur town a key suspect in a case filed over raping a schoolgirl by luring her with wedlock at Lalmonirhat’s Hatribandha Upazila.

RAB-13 Senior Assistant Director Biplob Kumar Goswami said the elite force arrested 22-year-old Md Mamun, a resident of the Upazila’s Ketkibari, in Rangpur town’s Lalbagh from outside a superstore on Monday.

The suspect had repeatedly approached the 10th grader with marriage proposals while she was on her way to school, the RAB official said on Tuesday, adding that Mamun later lured her to the house of one of his relatives on Jan 25.

“Once there, he raped her with the false promise of marriage. Since then, he had been avoiding her,” Biplob said.

After the family of the victim learnt of the matter, they filed a case with Hatibandha Police while the accused went into hiding.

Mamun was finally tracked down and arrested in Rangpur and measures were being taken to hand him over to the respective police station, said the RAB official.