Police have arrested a madrasah student in connection with a case filed over the rape and alleged abetment to the suicide of a 10-year-old student at the educational institution in the Banasree area of the capital.

The arrestee is Md Shihab Hossain, 19, a student of Alokito Quran International Hifz Madrasah in Banasree C-Block.

A team of Rampura Police Station picked him up from Khagchhara village in Bera upazila of Pabna around 12:50am on Thursday.

According to police, the victim, identified as Abdullah, a student of the same madrasah, was found dead inside the institution on Tuesday night.

On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.

Police said preliminary observations during the inquest found signs indicating possible sexual assault on the victim’s body.

Later, they questioned the madrasah authorities and came to know that Shihab committed sexual assault on four other students earlier.

Later, victim’s mother Tuku Ara filed a case at Rampura Police Station in this regard.

The accused reportedly fled to Pabna before Abdullah took his own life.

Following intelligence information and with the assistance of technology, police launched a drive in Pabna and arrested him.