Satkhira: A speech-impaired girl was reportedly raped by the driver of Shyamnagar Upazila Nirbahi officer in the government quarter premises in upazila headquarters on Saturday.

Police arrested driver Abdul Gaffar, 57, son of Gahar Gain of Badoghata village, after the victim’s mother filed a rape case with Shyamnagar Police Station, reports the UNB.

The victim, a student of Shyamnagar Government Moshin Degree College, used to live along with her mother at Abdul Gaffar’s house in Badoghata village as tenants. 

On Saturday noon, Gaffar’s wife Amena Begum sent his lunch through the girl. When the girl went to the UNO’s residence, Gaffar violated her inside his quarter 2:30pm, said Sub-inspector Raj Kishore of Shyamnagar Police Station citing the case statement.

Later in the evening, the girl informed the matter to her mother and Amena Begum filed the case against Gaffar.