A second-grader girl was allegedly raped in Tala upazila of Satkhira early today.

Alim Morol, a neighbour of the victim, reportedly picked the girl to a nearby area from her house and violated her, said Md Hasan Hafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Tala Police Station.

Later, locals rescued her after hearing her scream and took her to the upazila health complex. She was later shifted Satkhira General Hospital as her condition deteriorated, reports our Satkhira correspondent.

Police arrested Alim Morol after a case was filed against him with Tala Police Station, the OC said.

An alleged outlaw was killed in a "gunfight" with police in the district's Tala upazila early yesterday.

The dead Mozaffar Sana, 40, of Dohar village in the upazila, was a regional commander of banned Purba Banglar Communist Party, said police.

According to the law enforcers, Mozaffar stood accused in 18 cases, including murder and robbery, with different police stations of Satkhira and Naogaon.

With this, 10 people were killed in the incidents of “shootout” or “gunfight” after the killing of the wife of superintendent of police on Sunday.

According to a press release of Satkhira police, a team of law enforcers, led by Officer-in-Charge of Tala Police Station Sagir Mia, was conducting a special drive. Around 2:30am, police saw that a motorcycle was coming and signalled it to stop at Chara Bat Tola.

Sensing the presence of police, the criminals exploded two bombs and opened fire on them. The law enforcers then returned fire, triggering the "gunfight".

Mozaffar suffered bullet injuries, while two other motorcyclists managed to flee, leaving the vehicle on the spot. 

Mozaffar was taken to Tala Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared him dead.

Police also claimed to have recovered the motorcycle, a firearm and three bullets from the spot.

Police filed three cases in this connection.

Detectives today claimed arrest of 21 members of a doping gang and recovered foods mixed with sedative medicines from different parts of Dhaka.

The arrestees were sentenced to maximum two years jail by Mohammad Moshiur Rahman, an executive magistrate of Dhaka metropolitan, police said.

The law enforcers arrested them from Paltan and Shahjahan areas of Dhaka.

BNP candidate for Jashore-4 constituency, Abu Shaeed Mohammad Shahdat Hossain, was arrested in connection with a case filed allegedly for creating anarchy in October.

Police arrested Shahdat, who also a former Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker, from his Purandapur village in Jhikargachha upazila this morning, our Benapole correspondent reports.

He, accused of several cases, will be produced before the court later in the day, said Abdur Razzak, officer-in-charge of Jhikargachha Police Station.

Japanese prosecutors on Wednesday arrested a former senior Tokyo Olympics official and three businessmen over alleged bid-rigging linked to the Games, the latest twist in a growing corruption scandal.

In a statement, Tokyo prosecutors said they arrested Yasuo Mori, 55, a senior Tokyo 2020 organising committee official, for allegedly violating the anti-monopoly law.

Prosecutors also detained Koji Henmi, an official at advertising giant Dentsu, Masahiko Fujino of television production and sales company Fuji Creative Corp and Yoshiji Kamata of events operator Cerespo.

Local media published photos of police raiding the home of Mori, who ran test events for the pandemic-postponed Summer Games held in 2021.

Prosecutors accuse the four men of rigging a string of supposedly open competitive bids and limited tender contracts for Olympic events, reportedly worth a total of 40 billion yen ($305 million), local media said.

The four "limited competition in trade linked to test events planning... against the interests of the public," the statement said.

They decided which company would land a contract and "agreed that only the company that was picked to win the contract should bid."

The allegations concern preparation for test events between February and July 2018, prosecutors said.

In a statement, Dentsu said it "takes this situation very seriously" and vowed to "fully cooperate with the authorities".

The advertising giant will conduct its own probe and "take strict actions to restore the trust" of stakeholders, it added.

Prosecutors are already investigating bribery allegations around the Games over claims a former Tokyo 2020 board member took money from companies in exchange for Olympic partnership deals.

The former official, Haruyuki Takahashi, has been arrested over the scandal. In December, the former executive of a major clothing company admitted in court that he offered money to secure sponsorship rights, according to national broadcaster NHK.

The corruption scandal has cast a shadow over the northern city of Sapporo's bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics.

Officials there have stopped holding promotional events for the bid and plan a nationwide poll to gauge support.

The ballooning saga is not the first time questions have been raised over impropriety around the Tokyo Games.

The former head of Japan's Olympic Committee, Tsunekazu Takeda, stepped down in 2019 after French prosecutors launched an investigation into corruption allegations linked to Tokyo's Olympic bid.