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Police have arrested four men in a case filed for raping a 19-year-old girl in Jhikargacha upazila of Jashore. The arrestees are Yasin Arafat (22), son of Mizanur Rahman; Javed Hossain (28), son of Zakir Hossain; Mamun Hossain Bappi (21), son of Shariful Islam; and Aminur Rahman (20), son of Ujjal Hossain.
All of them are from Patuyapara village of Godkhali Union Parishad (UP), said Jhikargacha Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Babulur Rahman Khan. The accused were arrested yesterday evening (16 March) using mobile tracking after police received a 999 call. The victim was also rescued from the crime scene, said the OC.
The incident took place around 3:30pm yesterday in a lychee orchard in the upazila. According to police, the victim was returning from Benapole Khalabari when she got off at a flower shop owned by one of the accused, Aminur Rahman.
There, she met the four men. Under the pretext of showing her a flower garden, they lured her to a lychee orchard owned by Javed Hossain, where they raped her. Following the incident, Additional Superintendent of Police Noor-e-Alam Siddiqui and Navaran (Circle) ASP Nishat Al Nahiyaan visited the crime scene as part of the ongoing investigation.
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