News No. 18/2013, Wednesday,
February 06, 2013
A SCHOOL girl was sexually
assaulted in Imang Resort at Alutila of Khagrachari on Tuesday, newspapers
reported.
She
is a resident of Gorjontoli in Ramjarh Sadar Upazila and a student of class ten
in Ramgarh Government
Girls High School.
Police
rescued her in critical condition after she had jumped down from the first
floor of the hotel and admitted her to Khagrachari hospital.
A
Jumma youth, Rahul Tripura, 30, was arrested in this connection, the Daily
Purbokone said.
According
to Amar Desh, an extreme rightist Bangla daily, she was gang raped by Jumma
youths.
However,
Suprobhat Bangladesh
quoted Rahul, an eyewitness to the incident, as saying that a Bengali and a
Jumma youth had stayed on the first floor of the hotel and that he was unaware
of what happened at night between them.
He
claimed himself innocent and said, ‘In the morning I heard shouts coming from
the first floor. A little later I saw a young girl jump from the first floor
and fall on the ground. When I went down to help her, I came to know that she
jumped down because two youths tried to rape her.’
The
girl’s parents said that she had left home on Monday morning after being
rebuked over her studies.
She
was lured to the hotel by some youths and was reported to have been raped.
-------------------