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.  

Two cousins, aged 13 and 22, have reportedly been raped by seven youths at Batiaghata upazila in Khulna. Police detained three people on Monday in connection with the rape, said Zahidur Rahman, inspector (Investigation) of Batiaghata police station. Police said a group of six to seven youths entered a house at Fulbari village of the upazila in the small hours of Sunday and raped the two girl after taking hostage the elder girl’s two-year-old child. Read: 2 held for illegally selling jammer, repeater and network booster in the city The rapists also tortured the child dipping it in a bucket full of water. The mother of the younger girl said she went to her sister’s house in Dumuria upazila when the crime took place at her house.  “Later, my elder daughter informed me the matter at dawn over phone.” The two girls and the child were admitted to the One Stop Crisis Center (OCC) of Khulna Medical College and Hospital (KMCH). Read: UP member among 3 killed in Dinajpur road crash The child was shifted to Khulna Shishu Hospital as its condition was critical, she added. Meanwhile, the victims identified two of the rapists as Nayeem and Mujahid, said the mother. Legal processes are underway in this regard, said Inspector Zahidur.