Police arrested the neighbour of a Garo woman for allegedly attempting to rape her at her house in Dhaka.
The 23-year-old victim lived with her husband at Dakkhinkhan and worked at a beauty parlour. Locals claimed the accused Shafiullah Dewan, 32, had stalked several teenagers and women in the area before.
On Sunday night, he stalked the victim and barged into her flat when she returned home from work, Shakil Chambu Gong, leader of Garo rights group GASO, told the Dhaka Tribune.
He physically assaulted the woman when she resisted. Locals rushed to the scene hearing her scream but Shafiullah managed to flee.
The woman filed a case with Dakkhinkhan police. Shafiullah was arrested in Azampur later that night. OC Lutfor Rahman said a court ordered the accused into jail yesterday.
In May, a Garo woman was gang-raped in a moving microbus in Dhaka. Two months later, another Garo girl was allegedly raped in her house at Nayanagar.