Teacher 'gang-raped' at Barguna school

A primary schoolteacher has allegedly been gang-rapped in Barguna's Betagi upazila.

On Thursday night, the assistant teacher filed a case with Betagi Police Station against six people of the upazila's Kadomtala village. She was sent to Barguna General Hospital for medical tests yesterday.

The six are Sumon Biswas, 35, Mohammad Rasel, 24, Sumon Kazi, 30, Mohammad Robiul, 18, Mohammad Hasan, 25, and Jewel, 30.

Locals said the teacher was chatting with her husband in a classroom after the end of school hours Thursday afternoon. All of a sudden, some people attempted to enter the school.

Frightened, the couple locked the collapsible gate of the building. After breaking the lock, the gang stormed the building and beat them up. They then confined the teacher's husband to a classroom and raped the teacher in another, locals added.

Contacted, Mamun-or-Rashid, officer-in-charge of Betagi Police Station, said the teacher got married around a year ago, but locals did not know her husband, who is an Indian national.

Asked, the OC said the accused were not involved with any political parties and that police were trying to arrest them.

"I want justice,” the teacher told The Daily Star.

Her husband did not comment.

Bijoy Basak, superintendent of Barguna police, visited the spot yesterday morning and talked to the couple.