Madrasa Teacher Hafez Maruf Arrested Over Student Rape in Noakhali

❐ District Correspondent

Police have arrested a teacher in connection with the rape of a residential student at a madrasa in Noakhali city.

He was arrested from the madrasa on Thursday night. Earlier yesterday, the student’s father filed a case against the arrested teacher.

The arrested teacher is named Hafez Mohammad Maruf (22). He is a resident of Hirapur village in Badalkot union of Chatkhil upazila.

He has been arrested in a case under the Prevention of Violence against Women and Children Act.

When he was sent to the Noakhali Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court this afternoon, the court rejected his bail and ordered him to be sent to prison.

Madrasa students alleged that teacher Hafez Maruf had raped several other students before. However, out of public shame, the students and their guardians did not file a complaint with the police.

According to police and case sources, Hafez Mohammad Maruf, a teacher in the Hifz department of the madrasa, had been forcibly having physical relations with students for a long time. On the late night of February 23, when the students of the madrasa were sleeping after eating Sehri, the teacher woke the victim up and raped her.

The student’s father said that when his son went home during the Eid holidays, he noticed that he was mentally broken, not eating properly, and not talking to anyone. When repeatedly asked about this, he finally recounted an incident of being tortured by a teacher at a madrasa.

He said that a case has been filed in this context.

When asked, Sudharam Police Station Inspector (Investigation) Shri Ramchandra Bhattacharya told Prothom Alo that the accused teacher was arrested from the madrasa at night. The court sent him to jail today in the case.