Madrasah super held in Kushtia for 'violating student'

KUSHTIA, Oct 06 (UNB): Police on Monday night arrested a superintendent of a local madrasah from Mirpur upazila in Kushtia district for allegedly violating a female student.

The arrestee was identified as Maulana Abdul Quader, the superintendent of Sirajul Ulum Mariamun Nesa Madrasah in the Swarupdah Chakpara area.

Quoting the victim's family members, Abdul Kalam, officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station, said the victim was a resident student of the madrasah. Quader called the girl to his room early Sunday after Fazar prayers and violated her.

The accused madrasah super was learned to have threatened the girl not to disclose the incident.