Chairman held on charge of raping schoolgirl

Chandpur Correspondent: Police detained a Chairman on charge of raping a school girl in Kachua upazila of Chandpur district.

The detainee is identified as Masud Elahi, Shuvash, 50, Ashrafpur union parishad Chairman.

Sources said that the law enforcers detained the accused on Saturday night. Later, he was produced before the court and the court sent him to jail this noon.

A school girl of class six was raped on April 4. Following the matter, victim's father Selim Kadir filed a case mentioning seven names.

Police sources said that police held him from Dhaka's Fakirapul area and sent him to Kachua police station.

However, the Chairman's nephew Helal Hossain Milon said that his uncle is popular Chairman in Ashrafpur Union. It was a conspiracy against him.


risingbd/Chandpur/Apr 9, 2017/GM Shahin/Nasim