A Correspondent:
Magura: Students blocked Dhaka-Khulna highway at Bhaina Bus Stand on Sunday demanding capital punishment of the accused involved in the rape of an 8-year-old girl in Magura.
Earlier in the day, hundreds of students brought out a procession from the district town around 11 am and marched towards the court and surrounded the Magura District court.
On information, a team of police, Bangladesh Army rushed to the spot and asked them to leave the court area.
Later the students blocked Dhaka-Khulna highway, halting vehicular movement on the highway.
Ayub Ali, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said the mother of the victim filed a case against four people in this connection on Saturday afternoon.
The arrestees were Hitu Sheikh, 50, Sajib Sheikh, 22, Ratul Sheikh, 25 and Zayeda Khatun, 40 of Nijnanduali village in Magura’s Sadar upazila.
The accused were sent to jail when police produced them before the court on Saturday.
Earlier on Friday, a group of students surrounded the Magura Sadar Police Station demanding justice.
The eight-year-old girl, a class III student, was raped when she visited her sister’s in-laws’ house at Nijnanduali village in Magura’s Sadar upazila.
She went to bed with her sister at night, but in the dead of night, her sister found her missing and began searching for her.
After a frantic search, the girl was found unconscious a few yards away from the house.
She was initially admitted to Magura General Hospital and later transferred to Faridpur Medical College Hospital as her condition deteriorated. On Thursday, she was moved to Dhaka Medical College and Hos-pital (DMCH) before being shifted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka.
