An attempted rape case has been filed against the Boalkhali police OC, accusing him of trying to rape a 24-year-old woman on two different occasions.
The victim lodged the case yesterday with the Chittagong Woman and Child Repression Tribunal 1 against Boalkhali police station Officer-in-Charge (investigation) Omar Faruk.
“After the case was filed, Tribunal Judge Rezaul Karim ordered a judicial inquiry in this regard,” the victim’s lawyer Advocate Rezaul Karim Rony told the Dhaka Tribune.
The OC allegedly tried to rape the woman while he was in charge of investigating an earlier rape case filed by the same victim against her former boyfriend.
“While investigating the rape case, the OC offered illicit proposals to the victim several times, saying the probe would go in her favour [if she consented to his advances]. The OC also tried – but failed – to rape her when he took few of the victim’s family members on a trip to Chittagong city’s Patenga sea beach area on August 7,” the lawyer added.
“Angered over the incident, the police official again called the victim [pretending to be] on investigation purposes, and again tried to rape the woman by tearing off her clothes at Barighata area of Paschim Gomdandi-Jamadarhat under Boalkhali upazila on October 15 at around 4:30pm.” Rony added that records of several mobile phone conversations between the victim and the police OC have been submitted to the court as evidence.