The arrestee, Yusuf Ali, 35, is a father of four in Charia Purbapara village of the upazila.

The girl’s father filed a case with Tarakanda Police Station against Yusuf and his accomplice on Sunday night. Police then arrested Yusuf from a relative’s house in Charia Purbapara village. 

The other accused is on the run, police said.

Quoting the case statement, Abul Khayer, officer-in-charge of the station, said Yusuf, owner of a grocery shop at Charia Bazar, abducted the girl when she was going to her tutor on January 26 morning. He took the girl elsewhere of the upazila and raped her there.

Yusuf also threatened the girl with life if she disclosed the incident. The girl returned home in the evening on that day, said the OC.

Police said the girl failed in a subject in last year’s SSC examinations and she is scheduled to sit for the subject test on February 11.

The girl informed her family of the incident on Sunday evening and her father, a poor farmer, lodged the case.

Police produced Yusuf before a Mymensingh court yesterday afternoon and the court sent him to jail, said the OC.

The girl was sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital for tests, the police official added.