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Cox’s Bazar schoolgirl rape: Prime accused, 2 others held
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have detained three people including the prime accused in a case over violating a schoolgirl in Cox’s Bazar.
They were detained from different parts of Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar district s on Monday, said Commanding officer of Rab-15 Lieutenant Colonel Khairul Islam Sarkar on Tuesday.
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Md Ashique, 27, son of Nazrul Islam of Uttar Nunuachhara of Cox’s Bazar district town, was detained from Anwara upazila of Chattogram district around 11:30 pm.
The elite force members also detained Kamrul, no 4 accused in the case and Mohammad Shaheen, manager of Mom’s Guest House, from different areas of Cox’s Bazar district on Monday night, he said while speaking at a press briefing.
During preliminary interrogation, Ashique reportedly confessed to his guilt to Rab officials.
On December 13, Ashique along with two others picked the girl up in a vehicle when she was returning to her home.
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Later, they took the girl to Mom’s Guest House where they violated the girl repeatedly after keeping her confined there for two days.
On December 18, father of the girl, lodged a complaint against nine people and police later recorded the case.
Woman raped by 3 in Chuadanga; 2 held
Two men have been arrested in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a housewife in the Nilamore area under ward no 3 of Chuadanga municipality, police said Tuesday.
The arrestees have been identified as Rubel Hossain, 32, and Md Nazim Hossain, 30. However, Billal Hossan, another accused, is absconding.
According to the case statement, the three picked up the housewife while she was returning home around 8pm on Saturday. They took her to a mango orchard near the brick field on Buzruk Gargari Madartala Road in the municipality and raped her.
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Later, they took the housewife to her house at 12am.
Mohammad Mohsin, officer-in-charge of Chuadanga Sadar Police Station, said the woman filed a police complaint against the trio on Monday night.
Police arrested them from the area soon, the OC added.
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Cox's Bazar gang rape: Prime accused Ashiq arrested
The prime accused in the case filed over the gang rape of a married tourist in the Cox’s Bazar last week has been arrested.
Accused Ashiqul Islam Ashiq was arrested from Madaripur district by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), said Commander Khandaker Al Moin, director of the paramilitary force’s Legal and Media Wing.
According to the police, there are 17 cases against the prime accused Ashiq, including for assaulting women, possessing drugs and illegal arms.
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Earlier in the day, Cox’s Bazar Tourist Police arrested three more accused in the case- Rezaul Karim Sahabuddin, 25, Mehedi Hasan, 21, and Mamunur Rashid, 28, from different places in Cox’s Bazar district.
Police said the individuals arrested earlier today were found to be involved in the crime indirectly during investigation.
However two other prime accused in the case Esrafil Huda Joy and Mehedi Hasan Babu are still absconding. There are two police cases against Joy, said Additional DIG of Tourist Police of Chattogram Division Mohammad Moslemuddin.
Earlier on Saturday, Riaz Uddin Chhotan, manager of a hotel that was one of two locations where the woman was raped, was arrested and remanded for four days.
With Ashiq, five people have been arrested in the case.
On Friday, the court recorded the victim’s statement, said inspector Ruhul Amin, investigation officer in the case.
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On Thursday, the woman’s husband filed the case under the Prevention of Women & Children Repression Act at Cox's Bazar Sadar Model Police Station accusing seven people.
The 22-year-old woman checked into a Cox's Bazar hotel on Wednesday morning with her husband and their eight-month-old baby.
In the afternoon, the family went out for a stroll on the sea beach. At Laboni point, the husband had an altercation with one of the accused - thought to be Ashiq, who has an extensive criminal record and only got out of his last stint in jail 2 weeks ago -after they accidentally bumped into each other.
What started as a small argument soon snowballed into a major altercation and the young man called his accomplices to the spot. Later in the day they kidnapped the family in two auto-rickshaws and took them to a desolate place near the golf club where three of them allegedly violated the woman.
Her ordeal did not end there. The woman was taken to Zia Guest Inn, of which arrested manager Riaz Uddin was a friend of Ashiq's, and there the three accused again took turns to rape her for hours. They released her in the early hours of Thursday and allegedly threatened to kill her family if she narrated her ordeal to anyone.
Lieutenant Colonel Khairul Islam Sarkar, commanding officer of Rab-15, said their team rushed to the family's rescue soon after they got the call from the woman. Earlier calls to 999 proved futile.
Housewife’s rape in Cox's Bazar; seven sued
A case was filed against seven people on Thursday in connection with Wednesday’s gang rape of a woman in Cox's Bazar.
The woman's husband filed the case under the Prevention of Women & Children Repression Act at Cox's Bazar Sadar Model Police Station, said Cox's Bazar police super Md Hasanuzzaman.
Names of four accused and three unidentified men have been mentioned in the case. The four accused are Ashiqul Islam Ashiq, Abdul Jobbar Joy, Babu and Riaz Uddin Chhoton.
The 22-year-old woman came to Cox's Bazar with her husband and their eight-month-old baby on Wednesday morning and checked into a hotel.
In the afternoon, the family went out for a stroll on the sea beach. At Laboni point, the woman's husband had an altercation with one of the accused after he accidentally bumped into the latter.
What started as a small argument soon snowballed into a major altercation and the young man called his accomplices to the spot. They kidnapped the family in two auto-rickshaws and took them to a desolate place near the golf club where three of them allegedly violated the woman.
The woman's ordeal did not end there. The family was taken to Zia Guest Inn from the golf club area, where the three accused again took turns to rape her for hours. They released her in the early hours of Thursday and allegedly threatened to kill her family if she narrated her ordeal to anyone.
Read: Mother-daughter gang raped; 2 arrested
Lieutenant Colonel Khairul Islam Sarkar, commanding officer of Rab-15, said their team rushed to the family's rescue soon after they got the call from the woman.
Pregnant woman raped by "brother-in-law" in Bandarban
A pregnant woman was raped allegedly by her brother in-law and his associate at Lama upazila in Bandarban early hours of Thursday, police said.
The crime occurred around 2 am at Boidyavita area in Ruposhipara union when the woman went out to washroom.
The attackers forcefully took her behind the house and locked her two children from outside.
The woman used to live with her children in that house as her husband works abroad.
Read: Cox's Bazar horror: Woman kidnapped & raped by 3 in front of husband & child
The woman said, the miscreants also took away cash and gold jewelry from the house before they locked the house.
Neighbours found her unconscious and tied with a tree on Thursday morning hearing the cries of her two children locked inside the house.
They then informed police.
Read: Teen housewife 'raped' on moving bus in Narayanganj, 3 held
The woman filed a case against her husband’s step brother Jaynal Abedin and another unidentified person at Lama police station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act later on Thursday, said Md Shahidul Islam Chowdhury, Officer-in-Charge of Lama police station.
He said legal actions will be taken against the accused soon after investigation.
Woman raped in Bagerhat, one held
A 23-year-old woman was raped allegedly by a youth at Badekarapara village in Bagerhat Sadar upazila early Tuesday.
Police said Rubel Hawladar, 26, a youth from neighboring Polghat village, entered the woman’s house and raped her after threatening her of killing her minor daughter in the early hours of Tuesday.
Read: DB SI held for rape in Khulna
Police sent the woman to the One Stop Crisis Centre Center of Bagerhat Sadar Hospital for medical examination.
Rubel also looted cash Tk 47,000 and gold jewelries from the house, alleged the woman.
Superintendent of Police Mahmud Hasan of Bagerhat Sadar Circle said another youth Sajal was detained for his suspected involvement in the incident.
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KM Azizul Islam, officer-in-charge of Bagerhat Model Police Station, said a case was filed in this connection.
DB SI held for rape in Khulna
A sub-inspector of the Detective Branch of police was arrested in Khulna on Wednesday on charge of raping a woman at a hotel.
The arrestee is SI Jahangir Alam.
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Officer-in-Charge of Khulna Sadar Police Station Hasan Al Mamun said the woman came from Mongla of Bagerhat to see a doctor for her daughter.
She along with her daughter was staying at room-13 of Sundarbans Hotel in the city at night.
DB sub-inspector Jahangir Alam entered the room around 2:30 am and raped the mother.
Read:5-yr-old raped by cousin in Bhola
When the victim cried out for help, people in the hotel rushed in and detained Jahangir Alam. They later handed him over to police, he said
On Wednesday morning, Jahangir was sent to jail through a court in a case filed by the victim. The victim has been sent to One Stop Crisis Center of Khulna Medical College Hospital, the OC added.
Madrasa teacher gets life term for raping student in Barguna
A Barguna court on Tuesday sentenced a madrasa teacher to life time imprisonment in a case filed over raping a seventh grader in 2019.
Barguna Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Md Hafizur Rahman pronounced the verdict.
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The court also fined the lifer Tk 20,000.
According to the case statement, Saiful Islam, a madrasa teacher of Fuljhuri union in Barguna Sadar Upazila, called the class VII student for giving a guide book.
When the girl met Saiful, he took her to his house and raped her.
Read: Rangpur school teacher gets life term for raping student
Locals rescued the girl and admitted her to Barguna General Hospital. Later, she was shifted to Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital as her condition deteriorated.
The girl’s father filed a case accusing two people including madrasa teacher Saiful Islam on the same day.
Later, police arrested fugitive Saiful Islam on February 20, 2019.
Ctg Arabic teacher arrested for raping minor student
Police arrested an Arabic teacher from Satkania upazila in Chattogram on Sunday night for raping a 9-year-old student.
The arrestee was Abdul Malek, teacher of a local Maktab in Moneabad area of Purangor union. Maktab refers to a type of elementary school for learning Quran and Arabic.
On Sunday night police arrested the teacher during a drive following a complaint filed by the student’s mother at the Satkania police station.
Officer-in-Charge of Satkania police station Anwar Hossain said according to the complaint, the girl was a regular student of that Maktab.
READ: Rangpur school teacher gets life term for raping student
On November 17, the accused teacher raped the student keeping her back after the class, said the student’s mother.
As the student suddenly fell sick on Saturday, she informed her mother of the incident and later a case was filed under Women and Children Repression Prevention act.
The student is currently being treated at the One-stop Crisis Center at the Chattogram Medical College Hospital, said the OC.
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SC seizes Quamrunnahar's judicial power in criminal cases
The Supreme Court on Monday withdrew the criminal judicial powers of Mosammat Quamrunnahar, former judge of the Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7, for granting bail to a rape accused despite the court’s stay order on it. A five-member bench of the Appellate Division, led by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed the order when she appeared before the court. Quamrunnahar appeared at the court around 9:20 am. According to court sources, Aslam Shikder, former event manager of a private TV channel, accused in a rape case, was granted bail by a High Court in 2019, which was stayed by a chamber judge until a hearing by the Appellate Division.
READ: Judge Kamrunnahar loses judicial power temporarily
On March 2, 2020, Quamrunnahar granted bail to Aslam even though the hearing on the case was still pending before the Appellate Division. Quamrunnahar was asked to appear before the SC on April 2 to explain her granting the bail when the state counsel brought the issue to the court. The SC also asked Aslam to surrender before the lower court. On September 13, 2018, a rape case was filed against Aslam Shikder, former event manager of a private TV channel. On October 14, last year, Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Court-5 acquitted Aslam in the case. But the state appealed against the acquittal before the HC and the hearing is pending, said Deputy Attorney General Biswajit Debnath on November 15. Quamrunnahar made headlines early this month for her observation that police should not accept any rape case 72 hours after the offense. It triggered a storm of protests across the country. Then on November 14 Quamrunnahar was asked by the chief justice not to sit in the court. Later, she was attached to the law and justice department of the law ministry.
READ: SC directs lower court judges to give decisions publicly Quamrunnhar’s controversial observation came on November 11 when she acquitted all five accused, including Shafat Ahmed, son of Apan Jewellers’ owner, from the charges of raping two girls in Banani’s Raitree hotel in 2017.