molestation charge
DU student taken into custody on molestation charge
Raidul Khan Kowshik, a third-year student of the University of Dhaka, has been taken into police custody for molesting a girl at University’s TSC. Police however are yet to find his involvement in the incident.
Asked about the incident, officer-in-charge of Shahabag Police Station told UNB that Raidul was brought to custody under allegations.
"We primarily did not find his involvement in the incident," he added.
A female student of Dhaka University (DU) filed a case against five to six unidentified students for molesting her in the Teacher-Student Center (TSC).
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"A female student filed a complaint to the proctor office of the university and based on the complaint, the proctor office handed over a student named Raidul Khan Kaushik to the police station for interrogation," said DU proctor AKM Golam Rabbani.
According to the complaint, the victim student was talking to youth at TSC around 7pm on Monday when five to five unidentified youths talked to them and at one stage assaulted both of them.
Later, a case was filed against 4/5 unidentified people at Shahbagh Police Station.
Based on the complaint, after seeing the CCTV footage of TSC, the proctor's office initially got the involvement of a second-year student of the university named Abdullah Al Maruf.
Later, when he went to catch the student at Madhur canteen, Maruf led the proctor to another student named Raidul Khan Kaushik. After finding Kaushik, the proctor's office handed him over to Shahbagh police station for preliminary interrogation.
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