STAR REPORT

Police arrested a man on charge of attempted to rape a seven-year-old child in a jute field in Rangpur city yesterday.

The arrestee is Badiuzzaman, 45, a labourer, said Rangpur Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mohammad Abdul Mabud at a press conference.

According to the police, the incident occurred on Monday night in Kolabari area of Mahiganj upazila, when Badiuzzaman lured the child with a packet of chips to a nearby jute field and attempted to rape her, but fled when locals noticed him.

The child’s family filed a cased with Mahiganj Police Station the same day, and police through a drive arrested the accused early yesterday.

Police said Badiuzzaman lives in Dhaka and occasionally visits Rangpur.

In Gazipur’s Kaliganj upazila, police arrested a 60-year-old man and sent him to jail on charges of raping and impregnating a 13-year-old girl.

The arrested accused is Abdur Rahim, 60, a rickshaw puller of Baligaon area.

When the incident came to light yesterday, during the fifth month of the child’s pregnancy, locals detained the and beat him up and later He

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