Victim’s father filed a case with Palong Model Police Station on Tuesday in this regard.
Police arrested a rape accused, Rakib Mondal, 22, son of Samad Mondal of Uttar Madhyapara village in the municipality, said officer-in-charge of the police station Md Aslam Uddin.
According to the case statement, the victim’s family took shelter in a village of Zanjira upazila last year after they lost everything in their village home in Naria upazila to river erosion. The victim is studying at a college at the Zanjira upazila headquarters.
The victim went to the bus stand in the district town on Sunday afternoon for going to one of her relatives’ house where she met transport worker Islam Fakir.
In the name of dropping her to her relatives’ house, Islam asked the girl to board an auto-rickshaw along with his friends Rakib, Sabuj Rari, 22, and Iqbal, 24.
However, they took the girl to Rakib’s house at the Uttar Madhyapara village where trio raped her in turns gagging her.
Islam went to the house in the evening and raped her too.
Later, they took the girl to the bank of a Forest Department pond and took turns to violate the girl.
As an auto-rickshaw driver noticed the matter, the alleged rapists fled the scene leaving her behind.
Later, he reached the girl to her family and informed the matter to transport worker leaders.
Worker leaders caught Rakib from the bus terminal on Tuesday and handed him over to police and the victim’s father filed the case at night.