Khagrachari Correspondent, CHT News
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
An eighth-grade female indigenous student has been reportedly gang
raped in the Singinala area of Ward 1 in Khagrachari Municipality. In
connection with the incident, the victim's father has filed a case with the
Khagrachari Sadar Police Station, naming three unidentified individuals as the
accused.
In the First Information Report (FIR), he said, "His daughter
went for private tutoring with a local indigenous teacher at 6 PM yesterday,
Tuesday (September 23, 2025), as she did every day. However, when she had not
returned home by 9:30 PM, he went to the teacher's house to look for her. The
teacher informed him that his daughter had finished her tutoring and left at 9
PM. He then immediately began searching for her with the help of relatives and
villagers. At one point during the search, around 11 PM, they found the girl
unconscious on a filled-in piece of land to the east of the local Shason
Rakhkhit Buddhist Monastery."
"After rescuing the girl and bringing her to the front of the
Singinala Karbari's tea shop, she regained consciousness a short while after
water was sprinkled on her head and face. The girl then described the incident,
saying that at 9 PM, while she was walking home after her private tutoring, she
reached the closed shop of Sabita Chakma in Singinala village. At that point,
three unidentified men grabbed her from behind and covered her mouth, taking
her to the filled-in land east of the Shason Rakhkhit Buddhist Monastery. At
one point, the three men put a drug on her face to make her unconscious and
then took turns raping her before fleeing."
The father stated in the report that with the help of the villagers,
he later admitted his daughter to Khagrachari Sadar Hospital, where she is
currently receiving medical treatment.
However, the identities of those involved in the incident have not
been confirmed. According to local allegations and accounts, all of the rapists
were Bengali.
In protest of the incident and to demand justice, Jumma students and
the public have called for a protest march and a human chain program in
Khagrachhari today, Wednesday (September 24, 2025).
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