Teacher held for allegedly sodomising 30 minor students in Rajshahi

A teacher has been arrested for allegedly sodomising at least 30 minor boys in Shyampur Danshmari area under Motihar Police Station in Rajshahi city, police said on Sunday.

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

Wakel allegedly violated the boys and recorded scenes. Later, he saved them on his mobile phone, pen drive, computer and external hard drive.

A search engine delivered this information to a US-based organisation called National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).

Being a partner of many international organisations including IOM, UNODC, NCMEC, the content related to Child Abuse was sent to CID.

Later, 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 Police Station under the Pornography Control Act following a complaint lodged by the headmaster of Katakhali’s Ashraf Memorial Model School.