Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members have  arrested a madrasa teacher in a rape case from Ramna area in the capital. The accused was Md. Alamgir Mollah, 28, a teacher at Malibagh Tamimul Quran Madrasah. Lt. Col. Arif Mohiuddin Ahmed, commanding officer of RAB-3, said that a rape case was filed against Alamgir at Rampura police station on Tuesday. “He kept changing his location after the case was filed,” he said. Read more: 45-yr-old man arrested for raping minor girl in Chattogram Alamgir has been teaching at the madrasah for the past three months and the rape survivor lives near the madrasa. She filed a case under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act,  he added. Read more: Man arrested for raping minor girl after abduction in Ctg

A Khagrachhari court on Wednesday sentenced a madrasa teacher to life term imprisonment in a case filed over molesting  a 10-year-old boy in 2017. The lifer is Hafez Md Noman Mia alias Roman, a teacher of Choto Merung Al Iqra Hifzul Quran Madrasa at Dighinala of the district. Read:Ctg madrasha principal gets life term for violating female teacher Khagrachhari Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Md Abu Taher handed down the verdict. The court also ordered the lifer to give Tk 30,00,000 to the victim’s family as compensation. According to the case statement, Noman Mia molested the student of the madrasa and a case was filed at Dighinala Police Station in this regard on August 23 in 2017. On May 22 in 2018, charges were framed against Noman.

A 33-year-old madrasa teacher in Panchagarh was arrested on Monday for allegedly sodomising his 12-year-old student. The arrestee has been identified as Yasin Arafat, a resident of Gorgram Majhpara village in Nilphamari district. He was produced in a court that sent him to judicial custody. Police said Yasin sexually assaulted the boy in his room in the madrasa on March 11. The very next day, the boy returned to his home and narrated his ordeal to his parents. Also read: One held over murder of schoolgirl ‘after rape’ in Magura "His parents had initially approached the madrasa authorities. When the madrasa authorities did not act, his parents and local residents caught the accused and handed him over to us," said Abdul Latif Mia, officer-in-charge of Panchagarh Sadar police station. The teacher was booked for the alleged crime and produced in Panchagarh chief judicial magistrate's court. "CJM Humayun Kabir Sarkar sent him to judicial custody," said OC Abdul Latif. Also read: Four tie up man in Khulna, rape wife

A madrasa teacher in Panchagarh, arrested over raping two of his students, landed in jail on Sunday. The accused is Abu Bakkar Siddique,24, resident of Dakkhin Jinnat Para village in the sadar upazila. A panchagarh court sent Abu Bakkar to jail on Sunday after Boda station police arrested him from his own house on Saturday night and  produced him before court. Read: Khulna man sentenced in absentia to life for raping, killing minor Police made the arrest followed by a rape case lodged at Panchagarh Sadar police station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, 2000, said Abdul Latif Mia, Officer-in-Charge of Panchagarh Sadar police station. On January 27 and 28, Abu Bakkar raped those two resident students in the madrasa, according to the case statement. As the locals and parents of the students got information and interrogated he accepted his crime, it said.

A Barguna court on Tuesday sentenced a madrasa teacher to life time imprisonment in a case filed over raping a seventh grader in 2019. Barguna Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Md Hafizur Rahman pronounced the verdict. Read: Narail: Gallows for one, life term for 3 in farmer's murder case The court also fined the lifer Tk 20,000. According to the case statement, Saiful Islam, a madrasa teacher of Fuljhuri union in Barguna Sadar Upazila, called the class VII student for giving a guide book. When the girl met Saiful, he took her to his house and raped her. Read: Rangpur school teacher gets life term for raping student Locals rescued the girl and admitted her to Barguna General Hospital.  Later, she was shifted to Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital as her condition deteriorated. The girl’s father filed a case accusing two people including madrasa teacher Saiful Islam on the same day. Later, police arrested fugitive Saiful Islam on February 20, 2019.

Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) on Wednesday detained a madrasa teacher for allegedly molesting a 15-year-old student in Sylhet. The accused has been identified as Hafiz Abdur Rahman, 55, a teacher at Hazrat Haider Shah (R) Hafizia Madrasa in the Fatehpur area of Biyanibazar. Read: Youth arrested for raping Madrasa girl in Keraniganj Sources told UNB that the student is the son of a BGB personnel. Hafiz was detained on Wednesday morning after the student narrated his ordeal to his father. In the afternoon, BGB 52 Battalion officials took Hafiz to the headquarters for questioning. Later in the evening, he was handed over to the Biyanibazar police after the boy gave a formal statement to BGB. Read:Madrasa teacher in Feni sexually assaulted 11-year-old student Hillol Roy, officer-in-charge of Biyanibazar police station, said the student's father has lodged a complaint at the police station against the accused. "An FIR will soon be filed in the case," he added.

A madrasa teacher in Daganbhuiyan upazila of Feni has been accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old student. Victim’s mother on Thursday filed a case against the accused Saidur Rahman at Dagonbhuiyan police station. Saidur was a teacher of Al Jamiatul Islamia Abdul Ibn Abbas (RA) madrasa and was hailing from Sylhet. Also read: CTG madrasa teacher arrested for ‘sexually assaulting’ 2 students Officer-in-Charge of Dagonbhuiyan police station Imtiaj Ahmed said, "On March 30 Saidur allegedly raped the victim and threatened him not to tell anyone." The victim disclosed the incident when his parents tried to send him back to madrasa after the Eid vacation. When the parents informed the matter to the Madrasa principal, accused Saidur fled. Also read: Madrasa teacher held over ‘raping’ 7-yr old child in Benapole The victim was sent to hospital for medical tests, said the OC Efforts are ongoing to arrest the accused, said police.

A madrasa teacher, who allegedly raped an 8-year-old girl last month, has been let off the hook by a Kangaroo court after paying a fine of Tk 250,000 and receiving 10 slaps with a shoe at Zajira upazila of Shariatpur. According to sources, Amir Hamza,30, headmaster of Baitul Jannat Mohila Madrasa, raped the victim on March 13.   But after the incident became public on Thursday (April 15), locals held an arbitration instead of approaching police, underpinning a rape epidemic in the country. They fined the rapist Tk 3 lakh and 10 hits on the body with shoes. Later, the fine was revised to Tk 250,000. Also read: Rape epidemic: 2 held over gang-rape of Pabna woman The government amended the law last November to incorporate death penalty as the highest punishment for rape. Razzak Majhi, a resident of the area, said a so-called jury of 20-25 members delivered the verdict "after weighing every opinion". "All stakeholders are happy with the verdict," he claimed. Mintu Mondal, an inspector of Zajira Police Station, said no one informed them about the rape incident or the arbitration. Additional Superintendent of Police (Naria Circle) SM Mizanur Rahman said the law did not allow meting out punishment for rape through arbitration.  Also read: Housewife ‘gang-raped’ in Patuakhali He said they would take action after receiving a formal complaint. Rape epidemic continues in Bangladesh Bangladesh continues to see rape incidents even after raising the highest punishment. Rights groups blamed the lack of implementation of the law and a low conviction rate for the situation. Earlier last month, a police headquarters report said 26,695 rape cases had been filed across the country in the last five years. Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) data shows that 1,018 children were raped last year alone, but only 683 police cases were filed. Also, 116 victims were 6 years old or below. Overall, 1,627 rape cases were reported last year and 53 of the victims were killed by the perpetrators while 14 took their own lives. Also read: Police HQ: 26,695 rape cases filed in 5 yrs, with notable jump since 2019 ASK's data was likely just the tip of the iceberg, according to aid agencies, who report that most women are too afraid to report rape. The gang rape of a woman at Sylhet MC College hostel in September last year and the attack and rape of a woman in Noakhali the next month triggered massive countrywide protests. On October 13, the President promulgated an ordinance making death penalty the highest punishment for rape. The next month, the Parliament passed the amended law. Human rights organisations say strict implementation of the law and a high conviction rate will help bring down the crime. 

Police have arrested a madrasa teacher under the Digital Security Act (DSA) in  Lalmonirhat for sharing a "distorted" photo of the prime ministers of Bangladesh and India on Facebook. The 33-year-old, Zahidul Islam, was arrested from his house at Bhelabari union of Aditmari upazila of the district. He is the principal of Bhelabari Nurani Madrasa. Also read: Ctg youth sued under DSA for uploading ‘distorted images’ of PM, Modi, Quader Aditmari Police Station Officer-in-Charge Saiful Islam said, "Zahidul was arrested on Wednesday night from the madrasa as he shared a distorted photo of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his Facebook account." Also read: Madrasa teacher held for posting PM’s ‘distorted’ photo on Facebook "A case has been filed against him under the DSA in this connection," he added.

Police on Thursday arrested a madrasa teacher for allegedly beating up a minor student in Chattogram's Boalkhali upazila.