Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested the accused Madrasha teacher from Gouripur upazila of Mymensingh district on Wednesday in a case over rape and impregnation of an 11-year old girl in Netrokona.

The arrestee is Aman Ullah Sagar, 30, founder of Hazrat Fatema Tuz Zohra Women  Quawmi Madrasha and a teacher of the institution in Madan upazila of Netrakona district.

Tipped off, a team of Rab-14 conducted a drive in the area around 4 am and arrested Sagar, said commanding officer of Rab-14 Noymul Hasan at a press briefing at its office.

Mother of the girl filed a case with Madan Police Station on April 23 in this connection.

According to the case statement, the mother took her daughter to a local diagnostic centre seeing her health condition where she came to know about her pregnancy.

The girl said the teacher of the madrasha asked her to clean the veranda of the madrasha on October 2.

Later, the teacher forcibly took her to an abandoned room and violated her. The teacher also threatened her not to disclosed the matter to anyone.

The girl used to live with her grandmother as her mother worked as a domestic help in Sylhet.

The incident recently went viral on social media.

Meanwhile, in an attempt to evade arrest, the accused teacher went live on Facebook claiming his innocence and alleging that it was a conspiracy.