A woman was raped by the caretaker of Terokahada upazila chairman Sarfuddin Bachchu at his quarters on Tuesday night. Police arrested rapist Mizan Mollah, 45, caretaker of the upazila chairman and son of Abul Bashar of Baldarna village in the upazila.
Police and locals said the woman of Lakkhihola area in Batiaghata upazila was waiting at Terokhada bus stand around 7:15pm on Tuesday to catch a bus. Mizan offered the helpless woman, aged around 50, to stay at his residence, saying he along with his wife and children stay there, and the gullible woman went to the quarters.
Finding no other family members at the quarters, the woman was about to leave it. However, Mizan insisted on her staying there, saying he would sleep on the 1st floor and arrange her stay on the ground floor.
But the man violated her at night and drove her out of the quarters in the early hours of Wednesday. As the woman narrated her nightmare to some young men at the bus stand area in the morning, they asked her to approach police. Soon, she went to the Terokhada Police Station and lodged a complaint against Mizan.
Following the complaint, police arrested Mizan from the office of the upazila chairman around 9am. Later, a court sent him to jail. Outraged by the incident, locals brought out a procession demanding exemplary punishment of the rapist. – UNB
