Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claim to have arrested a mosque imam for raping a class-II madrasa girl in Chasara of Narayanganj city.

The officer-in-charge and assistant sub-inspector of Government Railway Police Station in Khulna are withdrawn on charge of raping a woman at Khulna Railway Station.

Narayanganj police yesterday arrested five people for raping a woman in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj. All five confessed to the crime, police said.

A third grader was raped allegedly by her neighbour in Moulvibazar’s Sreemangal upazila on Wednesday evening. The girl’s father filed a case against Gaus Mia, 45, with Sreemangal Police Station at night, said Sohel Rana, officer-in-charge (investigation) of the police station.

A total of 826 children were raped and abused in the last six months across the country, a report says.

Police yesterday arrested a madrasa teacher on charge of raping a first-grader in Jashore’s Manirampur upazila on Sunday.

An eighth-grader has been raped allegedly by a youth in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj.

Police on Sunday arrested a man for allegedly raping his daughter-in-law in Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur.

A teenage madrasa boy was held yesterday on charge of raping a vertically challenged girl in Nalchity upazila of Jhalakathi.

A mentally challenged woman is held hostage in a house in Bogura and raped before she was rescued by villagers, family source says.

Passengers handed a man to railway police, alleging that he had raped a 10-year-old girl inside the toilet of the Jamuna Express on Wednesday night.

Students and teachers of Mass Communication and Journalism department of Rajshahi University have formed a human chain protesting the rising incidents of rape across the country.

Harun Or Rashid, the prime suspect in a case filed over killing Samia Afrin Saima after rape, has confessed that he murdered the seven-year-old girl after rape so that she cannot disclose his identity.

Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum (BSAF) issues a statement demanding death penalty for the rapists of children by bringing them under the law at the quickest.

A Narayanganj court yesterday placed a madrasa principal on a seven-day remand in connection with a case filed for the rape of at least 12 female students and sexually harassing many more in the district’s Fatullah upazila.

Police recovered the bullet-hit body of a rape-accused in Anwara upazila of Chattogram yesterday.

The suspect took Samia Afrin Saima to the roof of the eight-storey building, saying that he would show her the view and raped the seven-year-old girl inside an empty flat.

Police recover the bullet-hit body of a prime accused in a case filed for gang-rape of a readymade garment worker at Anwara upazila of Chattogram.

The father of seven-year-old Saima, who was raped and murdered in Wari of Dhaka on Friday, appeals to the parents to stay alert so that their daughters do not fall prey to brutality like his daughter.

Detectives claimed to have arrested the prime suspect in a case filed over the rape and murder of seven-year-old Samia Afrin Saima in Wari of Dhaka on Friday.