<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>A teacher has been arrested for allegedly sodomising at least 30 minor boys in Rajshahi's Motihar Thana, police said on Sunday.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The accused has been identified as Md. Abdul Wakel, 33, a teacher at Ashraf Memorial Model School, Katakhali, Rajshahi.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wakel violated the boys and recorded scenes. Later, he saved them on his mobile phone, pen drive, computer and external hard drive. The search engine delivers this information to a US-based organization called National Center for Missing &amp; Exploited Children (NCMEC). Being a partner of many international organizations including IOM, UNODC, NCMEC, the content related to Child Abuse was sent to CID.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Based on this, a special team of CID conducted an operation in Shyampur Danshmari area under Motihar Thana of Rajshahi Metro and arrested Md. Abdul Wakel on Saturday, said Azad Rahman, Superintendent of Police of CID's media wing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During the drive, the law enforcers seized a mobile phone, two hard disks and two pen drives, he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Preliminary investigation revealed that Wakel lured the children with chocolates and played the popular PUBG game with his mobile phone and “sodomised” them at different times.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A case was filed at Paltan Model Thana under the Pornography Control Act following a complaint lodged by the headmaster of Katakhali’s Ashraf Memorial Model School.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>