Madrasa teacher arrested over alleged rape of 13-year-old student

Police have arrested a teacher named Md Masud Goldar (27) over allegations of repeatedly sodomising a 13-year-old madrasa student in Faridpur's Char Bhadrasan. Earlier, local people detained him, beat him and tied him to a tree. On Friday morning, the student's mother filed a case as complainant with Sadarpur Police Station.

According to police and local sources, the incident took place at a madrasa in Akterchar union of Sadarpur upazila around 5:30pm on Thursday. The accused, Masud, is a resident of Godagari village in Khulna's Dumuria upazila. He was serving as a teacher at that madrasa. The student who is the victim of the allegation is a student of the madrasa's Nazeera department. His home is in a village in the neighbouring Char Bhadrasan upazila.

According to family and locals, the student went home on Thursday afternoon and complained to family members against teacher Masud. He said the teacher had sodomised him multiple times.

After learning about the matter, the student's father and several local people went to the madrasa and detained teacher Masud. At that time, agitated people beat him and tied him to a tree beside the madrasa with a rope. Upon receiving the news, Char Bhadrasan Police Station police went to the scene, rescued him and took him to the police station.

Officer-in-Charge of Char Bhadrasan Police Station Mohammad Safar Ali said there are allegations that teacher Masud had sodomised the student several times before as well. Upon receiving news that local people had beaten him and tied him to a tree, police went to the scene and rescued him. However, as the scene is under Sadarpur Police Station's jurisdiction, he was handed over to Sadarpur Police Station police around 12am on Thursday night.

Officer-in-Charge of Sadarpur Police Station Abdul Ar Mamun Shah said the student's mother filed a case as complainant over the incident. The arrested teacher will be sent to jail through court on Friday noon.

Meanwhile, the madrasa's muhtamim, Md Aslamuddin, said police have arrested a teacher over allegations of sodomising a student. The madrasa side is also investigating the matter.