A tribunal yesterday sent the imam of a mosque to jail for allegedly raping a teenage girl in Debpur area of Sadar upazila six months ago. Judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal passed the order when Md Mozammel Haque, 30, son of Jafar Ali Mia of Uakuru village in Shahrasti upazila and imam of Debpur Jame Mosque, was produced before the court.

Officer-in-charge of Hajiganj Police Station Md Alamgir Hossain Roni said the victim's father who is a visually impaired beggar and her mother caught the accused from Hajiganj Bazar area on Sunday afternoon and informed police.