Bangladeshi student arrested on rape charges in Santiniketan
According to police, Shafiqul Islam of Bangladesh, who is a student of Rural Extension Centre at Santiniketan in Visva-Bharati, was in a relationship with the girl, also hailing from Bangladesh's Sirajganj region.
The boy had taken some objectionable video clips of the girl and later forced her to engage in sex with him by blackmailing her with the footages.
Later, the girl informed her family in Bangladesh and subsequently lodged a police complaint.
The boy was arrested and a local court remanded him to police custody for three days on Saturday.
Police said they are investigating the case.
The university, set up by Nobel laureate and world poet Rabindranath Tagore, was in news for a molestation case this year.
A girl student from Fine Arts department from Sikkim was allegedly sexually assaulted by three students in August.
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