Police arrested madrasa student Shihab Hossain, 19, from Khakchhara village under Bera upazila in Pabna district on Tuesday night in connection with sexual abuse and instigating a child to commit suicide at Banasree in Rampura in the capital.
The hanging body of Md Abdullah, 10, a student of Alokito Quran International Hifz Madrasa at Block-C, Banasree under Rampura Police Station, was recovered by police at about 10:00pm on May 19 last. There was a gamcha wrapped around the neck of the boy.
Later, the investigation officer found evidence of unusual sexual abuse at the anal path of the boy in the first information report.
At one stage of questioning, the madrasa authorities said there were allegations against their student Shihab Hossain of committing unusual sexual activities with four madrasa students earlier. Then the madrasa authorities filed a case against him. The Rampura police filed the case under Section 9(1) of Woman and Child Repression Prevention Act 2000 (Amendment 2003).
Police further said Shihab left for his village home before committing suicide by Abdullah. Then a team of Rampura Police Station arrested him at about 8:00pm on Tuesday conducting raid at Khakchhara village under Bera upazila in Pabna district.
Meanwhile, being the plaintiff, Abdullah's mother Tuku Ara Khatun filed another case against Shihab Hossain and several other unidentified persons over enticing her son to commit suicide. Charges were brought under the Woman and Child Repression Prevention Act and Section 306 of the Bangladesh Penal Code.
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