Nazma Begum, technical instructor of Godnail Shelter Home run by the social service department under the social welfare ministry, had taken the girl as her house help. But there is no provision for the employees to take any of the shelter home's girls to their houses for personal work.

After Nazma fell sick and was hospitalised on November 15 last year, her husband Ramzan Ali, electrician of the food department, raped the girl on November 19.

The girl complained to Kiron, a manager, and Alamgir, the head guard, of the home about the rape. But they had forced her to return to the house of Ramzan, who raped her every night, the girl alleged.

At one stage, the teenager conceived and Kiron and Alamgir asked her to kill the embryo.

As she refused, they called in Nazma's brother, Mokhtar Hossain, and sent her to his house after Nazma died on June 10 this year.

Hearing her ordeals, Mokhtar informed a rights organisation, which yesterday filed a case with the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal against Ramzan, Kiron and Alamgir.

Judge Mafizul Islam ordered the magistrate of Narayanganj (North) to probe the matter and submit a report in a week.

Meanwhile, a teenage girl of Gaita village in Kishoreganj filed a case with Narayanganj Police Station saying she was confined in a posh area in the capital by a prostitution syndicate for three months.

The girl told police she had left home for Dhaka three months ago as her mother got married after her father's death.

She met Swapan, who took and confined her in his Baridhara house promising her a good job.

Swapan forced her into prostitution after one month and used to take her to posh hotels in the capital.

The girl, however, managed to escape when she was taken to an Uttara house, she told reporters.