, May 21 -- Police have arrested a madrasah student in connection with a case filed over the rape and alleged abetment to the suicide of a 10-year-old student at the educational institution in the Banasree area of the capital.

The arrestee is Md Shihab Hossain, 19, a student of Alokito Quran International Hifz Madrasah in Banasree C-Block.

A team of Rampura Police Station picked him up from Khagchhara village in Bera upazila of Pabna around 12:50am on Thursday.

According to police, the victim, identified as Abdullah, a student of the same madrasah, was found dead inside the institution on Tuesday night.

On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.

Police said preliminary ...