Police have arrested another accused in a case over the rape of a woman and her daughter by several people in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila.
Md Harun, 42, of Charkazi Mokhlech village of Charwapada union, was arrested from Dhaka in the early hours of Thursday, Superintendent of Police Mohammad Asaduzzaman said.
"A team of district police arrested him from Dhaka. After the incident, Harun fled to various locations. He even attempted to flee to India through the Jashore border. Since then police were monitoring his movements using information technology. Police arrested all three the accused in the case,” said the SP.
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Meanwhile, the main accused in the case, Charwapada union Awami League president and former UP member Abul Khair alias Munshi Member was produced before a court on Wednesday with a seven-day remand plea. The order will be passed after the hearing today.
Another accused in the case, Mehraj Uddin, 48, confessed to the crime and his confessional statement was recorded at the court of District Senior Judicial Magistrate Tania Islam on Wednesday afternoon.
Mehraj in his confessional statement said that he agreed to the proposal of two other accused- Abul Khair Munshi and Md Harun- and entered the house of the victims on the night of the incident with the intention of theft in absence of the woman’s husband.
At one stage, Munshi Member and Harun took turns to gang rape the woman. At that time, Mehraj raped the 12-year-old daughter of the woman who was in another room. Later, the three men left the house with gold ornaments and money.
The two were raped around 2:00 am Tuesday. At that time, two nose pins, earrings and Tk 17,225 in cash were looted from the house.
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After the incident, the victim woman filed a case against three people at Charjabbar Police Station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act. Police admitted the victims to Noakhali General Hospital.
Bijoya Sen, Noakhali Additional Superintendent of Police said the victim identified two accused in the case.