Feni, May 18 (UNB) - A seven-year-old girl has allegedly been raped by a youth in Chhagalnaiya upazila of the district.
Police arrested the alleged rapist, Mohammad Bahar, 25, son of Ruhul Amin of Shilua village in the upazila, on Saturday after a case was filed over the incident.
MM Murshed, officer-in-charge of Chhagalnaiya Police Station, said the girl, hailing from Kishoreganj district, had been living with her family at a rented house at Shilua.
Bahar took her to a nearby shop on Friday noon and violated her there, he said.
Victim’s mother and sister found the girl in the shop after a hectic search when the ‘rapist’ managed to flee seeing them.