Police have arrested two people in connection with the rape of an 8-year-old child in Magura. The arrested are the child’s cousin Sajib Sheikh (19) and Sajib Sheikh’s father Hitu Sheikh (47). Hitu Sheikh (47) was arrested immediately after the incident on Thursday (March 6).

Sajib was arrested this Friday (March 7) morning.
Magura Sadar Police Station OC Ayub Ali said that the detainees are being questioned. As the child’s relatives are in Dhaka, no case has been filed yet. Legal proceedings are ongoing in this regard. The child was raped in the Nijnanduali area of ​​the city on Thursday afternoon while visiting her sister’s house.

She is a third-grade student. During the Ramadan holiday last Saturday (March 1), she came to visit her sister’s house with her mother. Later, when she was raped, she was first brought to Magura 250-bed Sadar Hospital. Later, as her condition deteriorated, she was sent to Fadirpur Medical College Hospital.

Later, she was sent to Dhaka. The victim’s family and others said that someone had found the child alone in the house and raped her and left her unconscious. She was found lying unconscious in the house at around 12:45 pm and was rushed to the hospital. Subash Ranjan Halder, a doctor at the emergency department at Magura Sadar Hospital, said, “After being brought to the hospital, it was initially reported that she was a gastric patient.