Assistant Superintendent of Police of Jhenaidah Mirza Salauddin said a 13-year-old schoolgirl was raped by a village doctor in the morning in Sejiya village of Maheshpur upazila.
Victim’s family members said the sixth-grader victim who had fever went to a local doctor-Saiful Islam for treatment where he violated her finding her alone.
Locals rushed to the spot after hearing screams of the victim but the rapist doctor managed to flee.
Officer-in-charge of Moheshpur village Rashedul Ama said they later in a drive arrested Saiful.
Meanwhile, a Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinee was kidnapped and raped by local miscreant Sakhawat Hossain Shahid and his accomplices in Nischintapur village of Jibannagar upazila.
Officer-in-charge of Jibannagar Police Station Sheikh Goni Mia said Shahid and his friends abducted the girl who was later rescued in a drive in the afternoon.
Police also arrested the rapist, he said.