A madrasa teacher in Panchagarh, arrested over raping two of his students, landed in jail on Sunday.
The accused is Abu Bakkar Siddique,24, resident of Dakkhin Jinnat Para village in the sadar upazila.
A panchagarh court sent Abu Bakkar to jail on Sunday after Boda station police arrested him from his own house on Saturday night and produced him before court.
Police made the arrest followed by a rape case lodged at Panchagarh Sadar police station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, 2000, said Abdul Latif Mia, Officer-in-Charge of Panchagarh Sadar police station.
On January 27 and 28, Abu Bakkar raped those two resident students in the madrasa, according to the case statement.
As the locals and parents of the students got information and interrogated he accepted his crime, it said.
Source: United News of Bangladesh