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Gang rape of Thakurgaon school girl: 2 arrested
Police have arrested two youths in the case filed over the rape of a 9th grade school girl in Dholarhat of Thakurgaon Sadar.
The arrestees are Ashraful,22, from old Thakurgaon area and Motiur,20, of Chilarong Bashgara area.
Police made the arrests on Wednesday from the old Thakurgaon Bazar area, said Chittaranjan Roy, Officer-in-charge (OC) of Ruhia Police Station.
On Tuesday night the girl was raped allegedly by her boyfriend, Sujan, a 10th grade student of Islamnagar High School and resident of Debiganj village, and 4-5 others including Ashraful and Biplob, according to her statement.
Sujan took her to a poultry farm away from her house where his companions were waiting. Afterwards they left her unconscious near her house at midnight, she said.
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Her father said that at around 3 am he heard his daughter crying in the yard. He came out of the house and found her bleeding. He also saw several injury marks on her body.
That night, the girl was taken to a local doctor and a union parishad member was informed about the incident, her father said.
On Wednesday noon, the victim's father filed a case against five people at Ruhia police station.
OC Chittaranjan Roy of Ruhia police station said efforts are on to arrest the other accused.
Cox’s Bazar gang rape: Prime accused Ashiq put on 3-day remand
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.
HC asks law enforcement agencies to stop issuing contradictory statements on Cox’s Bazar gang rape case
The High Court on Tuesday said the law enforcement agencies should refrain from making contradictory statements on the alleged gang rape of a female tourist in Cox’s Bazar in the interest of fair investigation. Such statements during the investigation into the case are undesirable, said the HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman while hearing a writ petition seeking judicial probe into the incident that occurred on December 24.
Read: Writ seeks judicial inquiry into Cox's Bazar gang-rape The bench observed that even when truth is revealed people think differently because of such statements from different departments of law enforcement force. The HC kept the writ ‘stand over’ and asked the deputy attorney general Bipul Bagmar to convey to the law enforcement agencies its message that they should refrain from providing different statements. “The law enforcement agencies can cooperate with each other in the interest of investigation but it would be better if the investigative officer keep mum about any cases during the investigation,” said HC. It also said that the journalists will seek information as part of their job and that’s why they can’t be blamed. Filing the writ on Monday Advocate Abdullah Al Harun Bhuiya Russel said “The statements of Rab and police are inconsistent and they gave different statements before the media. That’s why a judicial investigation is sought in the case.” The writ also sought a rule seeking directives of proper legal steps against the culprits involved in the crime.
Read: Cox’s Bazar rape: another accused arrested Secretaries to the home ministry, civil aviation and tourism ministry, Inspector General of Police, deputy commissioner of Cox’s Bazar and Superintendent of Police were made respondents to the rule. On the night of December 22 a gang led by its leader Ashik abducted the woman and allegedly raped her in two places of the resort town. Law enforcement agencies have since then arrested Ashik and five others in the case even if the investigation is going on.
Cox's Bazar gang rape: Another accused held
Tourist Police have arrested another accused in the case over the gang rape of a woman in Cox’s Bazar.
Esrafil Huda Joy was arrested from Chakaria Bus stand area of Cox’ Bazar on Tuesday morning, said Additional DIG of Tourist Police of Chattogram division Mohammad Moslemuddin.
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So far, six people have been arrested in this connection.
Police will produce Esrafil Huda Joy before the court on Wednesday and seek remand for him, said Moslemuddin.
He said process is going on for bringing Ashiqul Islam Ashiq, the prime accused in the case arrested by the Rab in Madaripur, from Dhaka to Cox's Bazar.
Ashiqul Islam Ashiq was arrested from Madaripur district on Sunday night.
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 areas in Cox’s Bazar district on Sunday morning.
On Monday, a court in Chattogram placed the three accused on a 2-day remand each.
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.
On December 24, the court recorded the victim’s statement, said inspector Ruhul Amin, investigation officer in the case.
Read:Cox's Bazar gang rape: 3 more arrested, although not prime accused
On December 23, 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.
On December 22, the 22-year-old woman was taken to Zia Guest Inn and there the three accused again took turns to rape her for hours following an altercation with her husband. They released her in the early hours on the following day and allegedly threatened to kill her family if she discloses the matter to anyone.
Female tourist in Cox’s Bazar was gang raped for extortion money: Rab
Ashiqul Islam Ashique, the prime accused in the case of gang raping a female tourist in Cox’s Bazar, and his associates assaulted the woman after they failed to extort Tk 50,000 from her, Rapid Action Battalion said on Monday.
According to a Rab media release, Ashique, is the mastermind of an organised criminal gang of 30-35 members in the seafront resort town of Cox's Bazar.
Earlier, a team of Rab arrested Ashique, 29, from in Madaripur district on his way to Patuakhali from Dhaka, said Commander Khandaker Al Moin, director of the elite force’s Legal and Media Wing.
The intelligence branch of Rab headquarters, Rab-8 and Rab-15 conducted an operation in the area of Mostafapur bus stand in Madaripur on Sunday night to nab Ashique, the release said.
Moin said Ashique and his associates have been involved in crimes like theft, robbery, kidnap, extortion and drug peddling in Cox's Bazar since 2012.
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Ashique was first arrested in 2014 for possessing illegal arms.
He used to blackmail tourists in collusion with the managers of different hotels, the release added.
In this latest incident on December 21 Ashique and associates committed the crime as the woman and her family refused to pay them Tk 50,000 demanded as extortion money.
Then Ahique and his men abducted the woman from Laboni point of the Beach area and took her Zia Guest Inn Hotel, where she was sexually attacked.
Besides, the woman along with her husband and child went to Cox’s Bazar few days ago. They family needed Tk 10 lakh for the child’s treatment. According to Rab release the family went there for collecting donation from the rich people for the treatment.
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Rab said Ashique confessed his guilt during primary interrogation.
According to the police, there are 12 previous cases against Ashique, including assault on women, possession of drugs and illegal arms.
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.
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.
Cox's Bazar horror: Woman kidnapped & raped by 3 in front of husband & child
A gang of young men allegedly kidnapped a couple and their baby from the sea beach in Cox's Bazar on Wednesday afternoon, took them to a desolate place and then to a local hotel where three of them raped the woman for hours.
The crime came to light early on Thursday morning when the woman dialled 999 and sought help from police, said an officer of Rab-15, Major Mehedi Hasan. "Already we have identified two of the accused and efforts are on to arrest the culprits."
In her police complaint, the 22-year-old woman claimed that she came to Cox's Bazar with her husband and their eight-month-old baby on Wednesday morning and checked into a hotel.
Read: Mother-daughter gang raped; 2 arrested
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 didn't 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.
Mother-daughter gang raped; 2 arrested
Police on Sunday arrested two people in connection with the gang rape of a mother and daughter in Polashikura village of Sherpur’s Nalitabari upazila.
The arrestees are UP election member candidate Abdus Sattar, 42, cattle trader and son of Abdul Basheed Ali of Palashikura village and Sadek Ali, 30, son of Abdus Sobhan of the same village.
Nalitabari Police officer-in-charge (OC) Bachir Ahmed Badal said that they were gang raped on Saturday night by seven men. After being informed by 999 message police ran an operation and arrested the two.
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The victims have been sent to Sherpur general hospital for medical check-up, he said.
It was learned that the victim woman went to visit her father’s home with her 16-year-old daughter in the village. Some of the locals including Sattar and Sadek took them for sightseeing on a three wheeler on Saturday morning. After the sightseeing at night they took the mother-daughter to an under-construction sight and gang raped there.
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According to the family members, the mother-daughter managed to get home in the morning and informed them of the incident. They then called 999 for support.
The victim woman later filed a case against seven people in this connection, said the OC.
Woman gang-raped after abduction from rail station in Ullapara
A group of men raped a woman after abducting her from a railway station where she was waiting to catch a train to visit her parental home, police said on Wednesday.
Police said they launched a hunt for the alleged rapists after the woman’s husband filed a case with Ullapara Model Police Station naming about 12 unidentified men for the assault.
The incident happened on Sunday night. According to the husband he along with his wife arrived at Salpa railway station under Ullapara upazila in Sirajganj district in the afternoon to take a train to go to his father-in-law’s home. He asked the wife to wait at a tea stall next to the station and went to pay the fare of the van driver who brought them there. On return she found his wife missing only to be found the next morning.
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Deepak Kumar Das, Officer-in-Charge of the police station, said some local people on Monday morning reported to the husband that they saw a woman lying sick in a mango orchard in neighbouring Betkandi village, about half a kilometre away from the railway station.
Being informed, police rescued the rape survivor and admitted her to the hospital.
The survivor said after recovery that some people tactfully made her faint before she found herself in the lonely orchard at night. There the men raped her throughout the night before leaving her in a bad shape.
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On Tuesday afternoon, the rape survivor's husband filed a case with the Ullapara Model Police Station against 10/12 unidentified persons.
Sirajganj Assistant Superintendent of Police Mahfuz Hossain (Ullapara Circle) said the police have launched a hunt for the perpetrators.
Teenage school girl gang raped in Panchagarh: Prime accused held
Police have arrested a 26-year-old married man in a case over gang rape of a teenage school girl and were looking for four other accomplices in the grisly assault.
The gang of five, led by prime accused Jewel Rana, violated the ninth grader at Moumari Lohagara village in Debiganj upazila on Saturday, according to the case.
The rape case was filed by the girl’s mother against the five with Panchagarh Police Station on Sunday.
The four other accused are Nuru, 22, son of Shaheb Ali of Lohagara village, Minna, 22, son of Shamsul Haque, Rimon, 23, son of Osman Ali, Nishat, 20, son of Rezaul Karim.
The lone arrestee Jewel was sent to jail, police said.
The rape survivor gave a statement before the court. A medical examination was also done on her.
According to the complaint, Jewel Rana, son of Khoka Mia of Bandar thana developed an affair with the girl despite being married.
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On Saturday, Jewel took the girl to an abandoned house of one of his friends Nishat where she raped her.
Jewel’s friend Munna secretly took the video of the incident. Later, Munna, Nuru, Rimon and Nishat also violated the protesting girl in turns threatening to upload the video footage to the social networking site and internet.
On return home, the girl revealed the assault to her mother who later lodged a complaint accusing the five of raping her daughter.
Bazlur Rashid, inspector of Debiganj Police Station, said the complaint lodged by the victim’s mother turned into a case.
Sexual assaults on women continue unabated in Bangladesh, despite the government introducing death penalty for rapes last year.
A police headquarters report, released recently, said that 26,695 rape cases were filed across the country in the past five years.
Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) data shows that 1,018 children were raped last year alone, but only 683 police cases had been filed. Also, 116 survivors were six years old or below.
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Overall, 1,627 rape cases were reported last year and 53 of the women were killed by the perpetrators while 14 took their own lives, as per the data.
However, ASK's data is just the tip of the iceberg, according to aid agencies, who report that most women are too afraid to report rape.
In October 2020, the country was rocked by protests after a woman was allegedly attacked and raped in Noakhali.
In November last year, Bangladesh introduced capital punishment for rape, following days of protests against sexual violence against women in several cities across the country.
But human rights organisations say the move will not solve the country's rape crisis, as the survivors of the heinous crime are often stigmatised in the society.
Housewife gangraped in Rajshahi
A housewife on Monday night was gangraped in Rajshahi’s Bagha Upazila.
A group of three miscreants broke into the house at Kaligram village of the upazila and raped her at knifepoint when her husband was away.
The victim filed a case against the three individuals at Bagha police station.
Police arrested a man named Suruj Malitha in connection with the case.
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According to the case statement, it was raining at around 12 am when Suruj (32), son of Ruban Malitha, Jhantu (33), son of Elahi Box and Rujdar (35), son of Gulumal of the same village, broke into the house and raped her.
Victim’s husband was away from home and her 2 children were threatened to be killed, the statement further reads.
Local councilor Saiful Islam said a case had been filed against the accused a few years back for allegedly raping another woman in the village. “They are also involved in the drug trade as well,” he said.
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Bagha Police Station OC Nazrul Islam said the victim was sent to the OCC of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital for a physical examination.
One of the arrested was sent to jail through the court. The operation to arrest the other accused was being continued, he added.