Netrakona, Apr 23 (UNB) - Police recovered the body of an unidentified woman from bordering Laxmipur village in Durgapur upazila on Tuesday. 

Mizanur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Durgapur Police Station, said a local woman spotted the body on the slope of a hill around 100 yards off the border and informed others.

Police recovered the body after being informed by the local union parishad chairman and sent it to Netrakona Sadar Hospital for autopsy. 
 

Keraniganj, Apr 23 (UNB) - Police arrested six people here on Monday night in a case filed over the reported gang-rape of a teenage girl in South Keraniganj.

Ashiquazzaman, inspector (Investigation) of South Keraniganj Police Station, said the victim aged about 14 went to Sarighat area on April 20 for roaming where 8-10 youths violated her in turns after taking her to an abandoned place.

Later, the victim’s sister filed a case with South Keraniganj Police Station.

Police produced the arrestees before a court on Tuesday where they reportedly made confessional statements.
 

Habiganj, Apr 23 (UNB) – A college girl confessed a bone-chilling story of killing her boyfriend as he was cheating on her, before a court here on Tuesday.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Towhidul Islam recorded her and her father’s confession in the morning and sent them to jail. 

Police arrested the college girl Farzana Aktar and her father Monju Mia on Monday for interrogation and subsequently recovered the body of the victim from a water body as per their confession. 

The victim Ujjal Mia, a college student and son of Shah Alam of Murakori village of Lakhai upazila, went missing two months back on February 20.

Investigation officer of the case Ajay Chandra Deb said Ujjal went to Farzana’s house on February 20 night in Dharmapur village, as her family members were in Dhaka.

Eventually, a dispute between the duo occurred when another girlfriend called him over cell phone.

Being agitated, Farzana at one stage killed Ujjal hitting him with stone and confirmed his death by slitting his wrists and strangulating him.

Later that night, she concealed the body creating a hole in the ground in another room of their house and informed her parents about it the next morning.

After 10/12 days, Farzana’s father exhumed the body and dumped it in a  Medir bil (water body) around one and half kilometers away from their house.  

Bogura, Apr 23 (UNB) – Police here early Tuesday arrested a young man for reportedly raping a minor girl at Joybhoga Madhyapara village in Gabtali upazila on April 19.

The arrestee was identified as Ujjal Mia, 30, son of Rafiqul Islam of the village.

The arrest was made after a case was filed on Monday over the incident, said officer-in-charge of Gabtali Police Station Md Jakir Hossain.

As per the case statement, Ujjal took the victim to an under-construction building in the area on April 19 and raped her there.

Victim’s family members found her there but Ujjal managed to flee.

The victim alleged that Ujjal had been stalking her and he violated her three months back at knifepoint.

Chuadanga, Apr 23 (UNB) – A tribunal here on Tuesday sentenced a young man to 14 years’ imprisonment for abducting a schoolgirl from Memnagar village in Damurhuda upazila in 2014.

The convict, Tutul Hossain, 24, is son of Nowshad Ali of Choygharia village in the upazila.

According to the prosecution, Tutul used to harass the girl on her way to school from home. As the girl refused his love offer, some young men, including Tutul, abducted the girl on her way to school on August 8, 2014.

Later, the father of the victim filed a case against four people with Damurhuda Police Station on August 12.

Police then conducted a drive and arrested Tutul. They also rescued the victim from an abandoned place on August 18, 2014.

On October 28, 2014, police submitted a chargesheet against two people.

After examining records and witnesses, Judge of the District Women and Children Repression Prevention tribunal Zia Haider handed down the verdict.

He, however, acquitted another accused as the allegations brought against him could not be proved.