Bangladesh: Father sent to jail for raping teenage daughter
Dhaka/IBNS: A Bangladeshi court on Thursday sent a man to jail for allegedly raping his daughter, media reports said on Friday.
Arifur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kamalganj Police Station, told The Dialy Star the 35-year-old accused used to live with his three teenage daughters. His wife works in Saudi Arabia.
The girl’s paternal grandfather filed the case under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act with the police station later that day, reported the newspaper.
The accused reportedly confessed his crime during primary interrogation by the police.
The victim is undergoing treatment at Moulvibazar Sadar Hospital.
Support Our Journalism
We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism
IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.