Minor girl murdered after rape in Ctg, accused arrested

Bangladesh desk: Police finally arrested the alleged rapist in the sensational seven-year-old Marjahan Huque Barsha murder case and unveiled its mystery, reports UNB.

The arrestee was identified as Lakkan Das, 30, son of Feluram Das of the Ward No. 3 at Lohagara upazila in Chattogram.

Md Mustafizur Rahman, deputy commissioner (South Zone) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) disclosed it at a press conference held at Kotwali Police Station in the port city on Friday.

He said the accused, who is an employee of a grocery shop at the port city’s Jamal Khan area. He used to offer chocolates and chips to the girl whenever the latter came out of her house.

Lakkhan took Barsha to a godown of the shop alluring her to give Tk 100 and raped her there, causing profuse bleeding, the DC said, adding that the victim came out of her house to buy chips on last Tuesday.

As she didn’t return home, her elder sister lodged an FIR at the local police station in this regard, he informed.

The victim, who was a Class I student at Kusum Kumari Girls’ High School in the city and daughter of Abdul Haque, used to live with her family.

Observing critical condition of the victim, the accused strangled her to death and dumped the body wrapping it with a sack into the drain, the police officer said.

Locals spotted a sack in the drain beside Sikder Hotel at Jamal Khan area while bad odour was started to coming out from the sack on Thursday, he said.

On information, police recovered the body kept in a bag of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) from the spot later; he said adding that they conducted drive to identify the killer centring the TCB bag.

The accused was shown arrested after an FIR was turned into a case, he added.