The Special Response Battalion (SRB) has arrested Naimul Islam (24), the main accused in the rape case of a sixth-grade schoolgirl in the Kotwali police station area of Dinajpur, from Chittagong. He was arrested in a raid yesterday afternoon. The arrested Naimul is the son of Bablu Hossain of Biswanathpur (Sukhanpukur) village under Dinajpur Sadar police station.
According to the case report, the victim schoolgirl (11) studies in class 6 of Eidgah Basti Girls High School. The accused Naimul used to tease the girl on her way to and from school for a long time and proposed love to her. When the victim schoolgirl informed her parents about the matter, they forbade the accused Naimul from doing such things, but Naimul disobeyed. On August 28, 2026, at approximately 7:00 pm, while the schoolgirl was buying goods from a grocery store, the accused Naimul grabbed her face and forcibly took her to the forest in the southwest corner of Dinajpur Medical College Hospital and forcibly raped her. After the rape, the accused Naimul threatened to kill her parents if she told anyone about the incident. When the victim student did not return home, her family started searching. At one point during the search, at approximately 10:30 PM, the victim returned home in torn clothes and with mud on her body, crying and narrated the incident to her family. The child’s mother filed a rape case with Dinajpur Kotwali Police Station on August 30, 2026 (Case No. 84).
After the case was filed, SRB increased its intelligence surveillance along with other law enforcement agencies to arrest the accused. In continuation of this, based on specific intelligence information, a joint operation team of CPC-1, SRB-13, Dinajpur and Sadar Company, SRB-7, Chittagong conducted a raid on Deen Mohammad’s shop in Chandanpura Bazar under Chawkbazar Police Station of Chittagong Metropolitan City at 05.00 PM on September 28, 2026 and arrested Naimul Islam (24), the main accused in the child rape case of Dinajpur Kotwali Police Station.
The arrested accused has been handed over to the concerned police station for further legal action.