Teacher keeps four students at home by luring them, rapes them day after day

Staff Correspondent

A lecherous teacher has serially raped four impoverished schoolgirls day after day. The teacher has been arrested in a case filed over the incident.

Yesterday morning, he was arrested from Mohammadpur in Dhaka by the police of Fatulla Police Station in Narayanganj. During the arrest of the depraved teacher, three of the victimized minor students were also rescued.

The arrested, Mizanur Rahman Mizan (45), was a part-time teacher at Pagla High School in Narayanganj Sadar. He is a resident of Agoiljhara in Barishal.

Police said Mizan had previously been accused in a case of pornography and rape at a police station in Dhaka. For some time now, he had been taking art and computer classes every Friday at Pagla High School. He resided at a house on Sadek Khan Road in Mohammadpur, Dhaka. From there, he would go to Narayanganj every Friday to conduct classes.

Recently, he targeted several students from poor families and trapped them with various lures. On June 6, he deceitfully brought two 10th-grade students to his house in Mohammadpur and raped them multiple times. Using the same tactics, on June 11, he took another 10th-grade student there and raped her.

Most recently, on June 23, he took yet another 10th-grade student to Mohammadpur and raped her. He lured the four minors with promises of a better life and other temptations, keeping them confined there while repeatedly raping them.

Their guardians include a brickfield laborer, a day laborer, and a scrap seller. These impoverished students’ families also live in inhumane conditions.

Police said that on June 24, one of the girls managed to escape from Mizan’s house. She informed her family as well as the families of the others who were being held captive.

Upon learning of the incident, the police from the concerned station went to Mohammadpur on Wednesday morning with the girl. Later, three other minors were rescued from captivity.

Fatulla Model Police Station OC Shariful Islam said the teacher was arrested during the operation. He has been shown arrested in the case filed at Fatulla Police Station.