Cox’s Bazar gang rape: Prime accused Ashiq put on 3-day remand
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Cox’s Bazar gang rape: Prime accused Ashiq put on 3-day remand

Cox’s Bazar gang rape: Prime accused Ashiq put on 3-day remand
prime accused Ashiqul Islam Ashiq


A Cox’s Bazar court on Tuesday placed two people, including prime accused Ashiqul Islam Ashiq, on a three-day remand each in a case filed over violating a tourist in the town.

Chief Judicial Magistrate Abul Mansur Siddique passed the order when police produced them before the court, said additional superintendent of Tourist Police Md Mohiuddin.

Read: Writ seeks judicial inquiry into Cox's Bazar gang-rape

Earlier on Monday, police filed a petition seeking remand for Ashiqu in the case.

The other remanded accused is Mehedi Hasan Babu. 

Cox’s Bazar gang rape: Prime accused Ashiq put on 3-day remand
Mehedi Hasan Babu

He was produced before the court on Tuesday with a seven-day remand prayer but the court put him on a three-day remand.

On December 27, a team of Rab arrested Ashiq, 29, from Madaripur district on his way to Patuakhali from Dhaka.

So far, seven people have been arrested in connection with the rape case.

Read: Cox's Bazar gang rape: 3 more arrested, although not prime accused

On the night of December 22 a gang led by their  leader Ashiqu  abducted the woman and allegedly raped her in two places of the tourist town.

A case was filed with Sadar Police Station in this connection.

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