A 42-year-old widow has been allegedly raped in Shajahanpur upazila of the district after being led on with the lure of marriage. The victim lodged a complaint against the alleged rapist Sirajul Islam Pintu,55, son of late Mortaz Uddin of Domonpukur village of  Majhira union. According to the complaint, the victim was living alone with her lone child after her husband almost 15 years ago. Pintu had been stalking the victim for the last couple of months to marry her. At one stage, she agreed to marry him and she was promised to perform Hajj with him after marriage. As their marriage was fixed, Pintu called her several times to meet him but the woman expressed her inability to meet alone. Following this, on February 23, a woman identified herself as Pintu's sister called the victim and asked her to come to their Colony house in Bogura town to buy bridal attires and cosmetics. So, she went there and found Pintu alone at home. Finding alone, Pintu raped her. After this, the victim pressurised Pintu to marry her. However, Pintu refused to marry her. Finding no other alternative the victim filed a complaint with Bogura sadar police on Friday morning alleging rape. The investigating officer of the case SI Aminur Islam of Banani Police Outpost of Bogura Sadar Police Station said that a case of rape has been registered in this regard. Legal action will be taken after the investigation, he added.

A female member of reserved seat of Buraich Union Parishad in Alphadanga upazila has allegedly been gang-raped in Boalmari upazila of Faridpur. Police arrested one of the culprits identified as Mahabub Alam, 30, son of Abdul Hoque of South Karmargram in Boalmari municipality. The rape survivor aged 35 years is a resident of Faliya village of the union. Sources said the UP member went to Amritonagar of Gunboha union under Boalmari upazila Sunday afternoon for visiting her relative. While returning home she got puzzled due to darkness at Bouttala of  Gunboha union and asked some  youths who were sitting there to help find the right path. Read: One more held over Narail teacher humiliation In the name of showing the road, they took her to an isolated place ,raped her by turns and then fled. Later, locals rescued her. Abul Wahab, officer-in-charge (OC) of Boalmari police station said that the female UP member logged a complaint with the police station Monday morning and police registered a case. The rape survivor was sent to Faridpur Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical College for medical test, he said. Suman Kar, Assistant Commissioner (Madhukhali-Boalkhai ciricle) of Faridpur district police said drives are on to arrest the other accused in the case.  

A 20-year-old woman was raped allegedly by an official of the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) at Mirzapur road in Khulna city on Sunday. Police said a college student came to PBI Inspector Majurul Ahsan Masud five days ago following a cyber-issue. The crime occurred on Sunday noon when Inspector Masud took her to a newspaper office at Mirzapur Road promising her to solve the problem. Also read: Female UP member ‘raped’ in Rajshahi: 5 held The victim immediately lodged an FIR at the Khulna Sadar police station, said Hasan Al Mamun, officer-in-charge (OC) of Khulna Sadar police station. The woman was sent to the One Stop Crisis Center (OCC) of Khulna Medical College Hospital for medical examination, he added. The evidence of the crime was found primarily, said the OC. Also read: College student accuses former lover of rape with promise of marriage in Kurigram Processes are underway to file a case in this regard, he added, saying, “Efforts are on to nab the police official.”

Two youths have been arrested for raping a woman and her niece after abducting them from Aochia Union of Chattogram's Satkania upazila on Monday. Police arrested Md. Alamgir (21), son of late Mir Ahmed of South Kanchna Bakshirkhil area of Kanchana Union and Mezbah Uddin Prakash Kalu (20) son of Md. Yunus of Tudi Aochia Union of the same upazila on Friday night in connection with the incident. Confirming the matter, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Satkania Police Station Abdul Jalil said the youths  were arrested immediately after the victim's (niece) father filed a rape case with the police station on Friday night. The accused were sent to court on Saturday afternoon, he added. READ: 30-year-old rapes schoolgirl in Magura, held According to the case statement, when the victims went to a shop on Monday afternoon Alamgir and Mezbah Uddin picked them up and took them near Arif's chicken farm in secluded hilly area at Alinagar in Aochia Union where they raped them overnight and fled the spot. The victims returned home next morning and disclosed the incident. Family members took them to Satkania Upazila Health Complex for primary treatment. Later they were taken to Chittagong Medical College Hospital.

A Dinajpur court on Monday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for violating a five-year-old girl in 2016. Women and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Sharif Uddin Ahmed handed down the verdict. Saiful Islam, 46 of Parbatipur upazila has also been slapped with a fine k 20,000, in default, to suffer six months more in jail with hard labour. Also read: Schoolgirl 'gang-raped' in Chandpur on way from school: police The court acquitted co-accused Afzal Hossain Kabiraj as allegations brought against him could not be proved. According to the prosecution, the five-year-old girl of Jamirhat Takeyapara in Parbatipur upazila was raped by the convict on October 18, 2016. Local people rescued the girl from a turmeric field the following day in a critical condition as she was left there suspecting her to be dead. She was first taken to a local hospital and then shifted to Rangpur Medical College and Hospital. Later, the doctors shifted her to Dhaka for better treatment. Also read: 5 held over rape of 2 indigenous girls in Mymensingh Police arrested Saiful and his associate Afzal in this connection, two days after the crime. In 2017, sub-inspector Abu Syed also the investigative officer of the case submitted chargesheet against the duo.

A 26-year-old woman returning home with an acquaintance was allegedly raped by six men on a minibus at Bishmile Nabinagar in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka on Friday night. All the six accused, including the driver and the helper of the bus, were arrested after the woman raised an alarm. Sazzad Karim, officer-in-charge of Highway Police Station, said on Saturday that the woman, a garment factory worker, went to Manikganj from Chashara of Narayanganj on Friday morning. READ: Case filed over rape of Bangladeshi woman by compatriots in India In the evening, she boarded a Narayanganj-bound bus. When the bus reached Nabinagar in Ashulia, the woman and her acquaintance got off and boarded a minibus to reach Narayanganj. "The six accused were already on the bus. The driver suddenly stopped the bus near DC Nursery and tied up the woman and her male acquaintance with a rope. Later, they took turns to rape her," the OC said. However, the girl showed her presence of mind and raised an alarm. Hearing her screams, a police patrol team confronted the accused and rescued her from their clutches. "All the six have been arrested," the officer said. An FIR for rape has been filed at Ashulia Police Station against the accused, on a complaint by the woman. READ: Khulna ASI suspended & jailed over rape at quarantine centre "She has been sent to the one-stop crisis centre at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital," the OC added.

Police have arrested a representative of a pharmaceutical company for allegedly raping a schoolgirl in Brahmanbaria on the pretext of false promise of marriage.  

Two teenage girls, who were reportedly gang raped, were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Some 902 children were raped in the just-concluded year, a 153.37 percent rise from 356 in 2018, according to a report of Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF).

An 11-year-old girl was reportedly raped by an unidentified youth in Ambagan area near Jahangirnagar University on Thursday, a day after her family had moved there from Kishoreganj.