Violated minor girl rescued after 9 days
None of 8 accused held
Police yesterday rescued a minor girl, who was abducted nine days ago from her house at Ratonkandi village in Raiganj upazila of Sirajganj district.
A gang of eight criminals led by Abdul Mazid of Ratonkandi village picked up Hafiza Khatun, 12, from the yard of her house in the evening on August 3, police and the girls family members quoted her as saying.
Earlier the victim's family refused Mazid's proposal to marry Hafiza, daughter of rickshaw-van puller Hafizul Islam, and a class five student of a local primary school, family members said.
The abductors took her to a house in Dhaka city where several people violated her.
The abductors left her in a critical condition near a petrol pump at Horgati beside Dhaka-Bonpara highway on Monday night.
Informed by locals, Solonga police rushed to the area yesterday morning and sent her to Sirajganj Sadar Hospital for treatment and medical examination.
After the abduction, the victim's father Hafuzul Islam lodged a case with Sirajganj court against eight people -- Mazid, Yusub Ali, Amzad Ali, Ikbal Hossain and Saheb Ali of Ratonkandi village in the same upazila and Dulal, Joynal and Shahidul Islam of Kadampal village in Sirajganj Sadar upazila.
Solongga Police Station officer-in-charge said they are investigating the case but none has been arrested so far.
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