School Student raped after being picked up from school in Jessore, Jubo Dal joint convener arrested

Jessore Correspondent

Police have arrested a youth group leader on charges of raping an eighth-grade school student in Sharsha Upazila of Jessore.

The detained Jubo Dal leader, Monirul Islam Moni, is a resident of Gilapol village in Ulashi Union. He is the Sharsha Upazila correspondent of Jessore’s local newspaper, Daily Lok Samaj. He has also been involved in BNP politics for a long time. He is the joint convener of the Upazila Jubo Dal ex officio.

He was arrested on Wednesday afternoon, September 24. This morning, the victim’s mother filed a case under the Prevention of Violence against Women and Children Act at Sharsha Police Station.

The victim is a student of class 8 at Barnamala Vidyapeeth School in the area. Accused Monirul Islam Moni’s wife is a teacher at that school.

The victim student said, on September 18, journalist Monirul Islam Moni, the husband of our school madam, came to the school during tiffin. We have known him since childhood. During school, he called me from outside the school through another student. I told the teacher and went outside. Then he asked me, ‘How much money do you have?’ Then he said, ‘I have to eat Singara.’ I said, we have a canteen in our school, we eat there. Then he said, ‘I will not eat there, I will eat at the Dhansiri Hotel in Gilapole.’

Then I said, ‘I have classes, I’ll go another day.’ But he forced me to take him on his motorcycle to that hotel. When I got there, I saw that the hotel was closed. However, he already knew that the hotel was closed. Then he said, ‘I have ripe bananas at home, I will feed you.’ He forced me like this several times and finally took me to his house and raped me.

According to the case, Monirul Islam Moni went to Ulashi Gilapol RRF Barnamala School during the tiffin period on September 18. Later, he called the victim out through a student. Then, he tricked her into taking her on a motorcycle and first made her have breakfast at a hotel and then took her to his house by tempting her. There, the case states that he raped the child.

Sharsha Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abdul Alim said, “A case has been filed at the police station in this incident and the accused is in custody.”

Meanwhile, Jessore Police Superintendent Rawnak Jahan said, “This is a heinous crime. The victim has been admitted to Jessore General Hospital.”