Video footage leads to father’s arrest in Chattogram for ‘raping’ his 10-year-old daughter

The child reported her father after collecting video evidence against him by herself

Police have arrested a man in Chattogram on charges of “raping” his 10-year-old daughter.

The man, identified as 52-year-old Pradeep Kumar Banik, was arrested from his house in east Boluar Dighi in Kotwali Thana on Sunday night.

Abdul Karim, chief of the Kotwali Police Station, said they received a call on the national emergency service number 999 reporting the rape on Sunday night. Later, police apprehended Pradeep at his home.

The child has been sent to the One-Stop Crisis Center at Chattogram Medical College Hospital along with her mother and aunt.

Karim further stated that preparations for a case were underway.

According to him, the child alleged that her father sexually abused her several times after her mother left for work each day. She eventually informed her mother of the issue, and based on her advice, she covertly shot a video of her father's behaviour on her cell phone.

Karim said that the police have also confiscated the cell phone as evidence.