Staff Reporter:

Police in two separate drives on Thursday arrested two teenagers on charge of raping two underage girls in Raiganj and Shahzadpur upazila of Sirajganj district.
According to the allegations, the two rape incidents took place in two neighboring upazilas of the district in less than 72 hours.
Police said, one of the arrested age about 14-year was picked up from his maternal uncle’s house in Pabna on Friday afternoon on charges of “raping” a second-grader in Raiganj Upazila of the district, said Sirajganj Detective Police Sub-Inspector Nazmul Haque.
Nazmul said the arrestee was later sent to a juvenile correctional facility in Gazipur.
Earlier, on Sunday, the teenager was accused of raping a child in the Nadua village under Pangashi Union in Raiganj Upazila.
For four days, an attempt was made to mask the incident in the name of “shalish”, a traditional rural dispute resolution system.
Later, on Thursday, the child’s father filed a case, according to Md Asaduzzaman, OC of Raiganj Police Station.
Citing the case dossier, Asaduzzaman said, the 7-year-old second-grader “rape” victim was a student of an NGO-run school in the village.
The case states that, when the child had gone to school along with her fellows on Sunday last, the school teacher’s teenage son called her to a vacant room and proceeded with the act.
In another incident, police arrested 14 years old another boy from Ratonkandi Uttarpara village in Shahzadpur upazila in the district on charge of raping his 5 years old female cousin.
Both the child “rape” victims are currently undergoing treatment at Shaheed M Monsur Ali Medical College Hospital.
(The Daily Sky refrains from publishing names and identities of the two rape victims and even the accused, arrested by police, as they all are underage.)