Youth arrested for raping woman in Bagerhat

Police have arrested a young man for allegedly raping a woman in Fakirhat upazila of Bagerhat.

The alleged rapist Al Amin Biswas (30) was arrested from his residence in Jaria Kahardanga area of Fakirhat upazila early in the morning, said Abu Sayed Mohammad Khairul Anam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Fakirhat Model Police Station.

The woman filed the rape case against Al Amin with the police station last night, said the police official.

He was sent to jail by a court today, our Bagerhat correspondent reports quoting the OC.

According to the case statement, Al Amin proposed to marry the 24-year-old woman and asked her to come to Katakhali bus stand around 2:00pm yesterday.

Later, the man took the woman to a pond behind his house and raped her, said the case statement.