Dhaka, March 14 -- A teenager has been arrested on charges of "raping" a second-grader in Sirajganj's Raiganj Upazila.

The 14-year-old was arrested in his maternal uncle's house in Pabna on Friday afternoon, said Sirajganj Detective Police Sub-Inspector Nazmul Haque.

Nazmul said the arrestee was later sent to a juvenile correctional facility in Gazipur.

Earlier, on Sunday, the teenager was accused of raping a child in the Nadua village of Pangashi Union in Raigonj Upazila.

For four days, an attempt was made to mask the incident in the name of "shalish", a traditional rural dispute resolution system.

Later, on Thursday, the child's father filed a case, according to Md Asaduzzaman, chief of Raiganj Police Station.

Citing the case doss...