A case has been filed with Hatirjheel Police Station over the alleged rape and torture of a Bangladeshi woman by fellow countrymen in India.

The victim’s father filed the case on Thursday night under human trafficking  and pornography act, said Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC-media) of the DMP Iftekhaiul Islam.

According to the First Information Report (FIR), the victim had been trafficked to India  in the name of sending her to Dubai.

Rifadul ul Islam alias TikTok Hridoy of Moghbazar area, and several others were accused in the case, the ADC media said.

Earlier it was reported that police in India’s Bengaluru arrested five Bangladeshis - four men and a woman - for allegedly raping and torturing a woman believed to be from Bangladesh.

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The arrests were made on late Thursday evening, hours after Assam Police shared visuals from a video circulating on social media to trace the accused, reports the Hindustan Times.

The video showed five people, including the woman, subjecting another woman to physical abuse and torture. Bengaluru City Police promptly traced and arrested them.

According to the report, the accused and victim are Bangladeshis.

“As per the information revealed so far, all of them are part of the same group and believed to be from Bangladesh,” Bengaluru police Commissioner Kamal Pant told Hindustan Times.

Due to financial disputes, the culprits brutalised the victim, who is also said to be a Bangladeshi, brought to India for human trafficking, he said.

Police have launched an investigation into the incident.