chtnews.com
News No. 25/2014,
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
THE police have
arrested a settler youth on charge of attempting to rape a 28-year-old Jumma
woman in Manikchari under Khagrachari district.
The incident happened
at 10pm on Tuesday night in the village of Darjya
Para under Tintehori Union when Md. Hanif, 22, a caretaker of a garden
owned by Kader Company in the locality, sneaked into the house of the woman,
who was sleeping with her minor children. Her husband was not at home at the
time.
Hanif grabbed her and
tried to rape her. But when she fought back and screamed for help, Hanif ran
out of the house.
When the incident
became known, the victim’s husband, her brother and other villagers went to the
farm house of Kader Company at 11pm, seized him and then handed him over
to the police.
The Officer-in-charge
of Manikchari police station, Md. Shafiqul Islam, confirmed the incident, and
added that they were preparing to file a case against the culprit.
Hanif, son of Anisur
Rahman of the village of Manikchari Adarsha Gram, joined as a
caretaker for the Chittagong-based Kader Company only two days before the
incident.
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