Police have arrested a college girl and her two classmates, including a boy, for falsely staging an abduction and gang-rape to extort money from her family to buy an iPhone in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj district.
Rupganj Police Station Officer-In-Charge Tarikul Islam disclosed the matter at a press briefing at the police station on Thursday.
The mastermind of the incident, Mahiya Akhter, was working on the ideas for several days as her family refused to give her money for the mobile phone, police said.
The rest arrestees are her classmates, Sifat Mia and Cynthia Akhter. All three are intermediate students of Government Murapara College's commerce group.
On Wednesday, rumours spread on social media that a female student of the Murapara College had been abducted and gang-raped. Her family even filed an abduction case with the police.
Police began an investigation into the incident with the help of technology and detected the plot staged for purchasing the mobile phone, the OC said.
As per the plan, Mahiya had left home Tuesday morning, telling her family that she was going to college.
Later, her classmate Sifat called her mother pretending to be a kidnapper and demanded Tk 1 lakh as ransom, threatening to rape her if the money wasn't paid, said the OC.
On Wednesday, Mahiya reportedly took shelter at Cynthia's house. When the ransom was not paid, she drank cough syrup to appear unconscious and lay behind her college as part of the act.
Sifat then called her mother again, claiming they had left her daughter behind as the ransom wasn't paid.
Police later rescued Mahiya and first took her to Rupganj Upazila Health Complex, and shifted to Narayanganj for further medical tests, he said.
Police said further interrogation is ongoing and legal steps are underway, added the OC.
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