Police finally arrested the alleged rapist in the sensational seven-year-old Marjahan Haque Barsa murder case and unveiled its mystery.   

The arrestee was identified as Lakkan Das, 30, son of Feloram Das of the ward No 3 in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram.

Md Mustafizur Rahman, deputy commissioner (south zone) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) disclosed these at a press conference at Kotwali police station on Friday.

He said the accused, who was an employee of a grocery shop in the port city’s Jamal Khan area, used to offer chocolate and chips to the girl when the latter came out of her house.

Lokkhan took Marjahan to a godown of the shop alluring her to give Tk 100 and raped her there, resulting in a huge bleeding, the DC said adding that the victim came out of her house to buy chips on last Tuesday.

As she didn’t return home over the day, her elder sister lodged an FIR at the local police station in this regard, he informed.

The victim, who was a first-grader of Kusum Kumari Girls’ High School in the city and daughter of Abdul Haque, used to live with her family. 

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Observing critical condition of the victim, the accused strangled her to death and dumped the body wrapped by a sack in a drain, the police officer said.

Locals spotted a sack in the drain beside Sikdar Hotel in the Jamal Khan area while a bad odour was spreading from the sack on Thursday, he said.

On information, police recovered the body put in a bag of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) from the spot later; he said adding that they conducted drive to identify the killer centring the TCB bag.

After scrutinising the CCTV footages collected from the area and verifying other documents, law enforcers arrested the accused from the shop early Friday.

The accused was shown arrested after the FIR was turned into a case, he added.