Police arrested a man from Harirampur upazila of Manikganj district on Tuesday in a case filed over violating his 16-year-old daughter.

CID senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (Media) Jisanur Rahman Jisan confirmed the matter on Wednesday.

Arrested Shariful is a resident of Baraigram upazila in Natore district.

The CID official said Shariful’s wife left him two years ago when he became a so-called monk and his daughter went to her maternal grandmother’s house in Purba Haguria village in Natore.

Shariful took his daughter in Baraigram upazila of Natore from her grandmother six days before Eid-ul-Azha and started torturing her mentally and physically. He also violated her.

The victim managed to contact her grandmother. Later, the grandmother rescued her and filed a case with Baraigaram Police Station in Natore.

DIG Sheikh Nazmul Alam said he is also an accused in a case under the Narcotics Control Act filed with the same Police Station.

Police arrested him from Padma Char area of Basantapur Bagdangi in Manikganj on Tuesday.

During the initial interrogation, Sharif confessed to raping his daughter.

Handing him over to Natore police is underway.

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