Teacher arrested after 30 pupils 'sodomised' in Rajshahi

Arrest

Rajshahi, May 19 -- A teacher has been arrested for allegedly sodomising at least 30 minor boys in Rajshahi's Motihar Thana, police said on Sunday.

The accused has been identified as Md. Abdul Wakel, 33, a teacher at Ashraf Memorial Model School, Katakhali, Rajshahi.

Wakel violated the boys and recorded scenes. Later, he saved them on his mobile phone, pen drive, computer and external hard drive. The search engine delivers this information to a US-based organization called National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). Being a partner of many international organizations including IOM, UNODC, NCMEC, the content related to Child Abuse was sent to CID.

Based on this, a special team of CID conducted an operation in Shyampur Danshmari area under Motihar Thana of Rajshahi Metro and arrested Md. Abdul Wakel on Saturday, said Azad Rahman, Superintendent of Police of CID's media wing.

During the drive, the law enforcers seized a mobile phone, two hard disks and two pen drives, he added.

Preliminary investigation revealed that Wakel lured the children with chocolates and played the popular PUBG game with his mobile phone and “sodomised” them at different times.

A case was filed at Paltan Model Thana under the Pornography Control Act following a complaint lodged by the headmaster of Katakhali’s Ashraf Memorial Model School. - UNB