Rab has detained fugitive madrasa teacher Amanullah Mahmudi Sagor, the prime accused in a case filed over the rape and impregnation of an 11-year-old student in Netrokona’s Madan upazila.

A team of Mymensingh Rab-14 detained Sagor, 30, from the Gauripur area of Mymensingh, confirmed Madan Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mohammad Tarikul Islam.

However, Rab is yet to hand over the accused to police. Sagor is expected to be transferred to police custody in the evening, said the OC.

Contacted, RAB-14's Commanding Officer (CO) Naimul Hasan said, "A detailed information will be provided at a press conference around 12 noon in this regard."

On April 23, the mother of the child filed a rape case against two including Sagor with Madan Police Station after discovering that her daughter was seven months pregnant.

The incident has since sparked outrage across the country.

According to the First Information Report, on October 2 last year, after classes ended in the afternoon, Sagor told the child to sweep the mosque adjacent to the madrasa. By that time, other teachers and students had already left for home. After the child finished sweeping, he told her to clean his room. As soon as she entered the room, he raped her.

The FIR further said that when the child cried out, he threatened to beat her and expel her from the madrasa.

The child was allegedly raped on four or five more occasions in a room adjacent to the mosque’s veranda and also in classrooms, the FIR read.

On April 18, when the mother suddenly noticed physical changes in the child, she took her to a local diagnostic centre for a check-up. There, the doctor discovered that the child was in her third term of pregnancy.

Meanwhile, Sagor, 30, founder of the madrasa, went live on Facebook yesterday from an undisclosed location to claim his innocence and demanded a DNA test to determine the paternity of the unborn child.