Police said on Thursday that they arrested a man and were looking for several others in a case filed in connection with forcing a college girl into marriage at gunpoint.
Police named the arrestee as Md Faruk, 43, of Panti village in Kumarkhali upazila in the district.
But the main accused Golam Dastagir Titas,45, whom the girl was forced to marry was still on the run along with about 20 other alleged accomplices, police said.
According to the case Titas led the gang to burst into the girl’s house in Kumarkhali upazila and tied her mother up with ropes before forcing her to sign the marriage registration book.
The case was filed at the Kumarkhali Police Station on a complaint from the girl’s mother, said Kamruzzaman Talukdar, officer-in-charge of the station.
Golam Dastogir Titas, 45, was named as the main accused in the case filed against 20 people, some of them unnamed.
The girl completed her graduation from a local college this year.
She complained that Titas has been pestering her with the marriage proposal for the past six years. He also threatened to kill her unless she accepts the proposal.
Efforts are on to nab the others accused, said the OC.
Source: United News of Bangladesh