Housewife allegedly drugged and raped in Dhaka

A woman has been raped allegedly by local miscreants, after being drugged at an apartment in the Rampura area of Dhaka. The victim was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) following the incident on Sunday afternoon. According to victim’s husband, who works at a private company in the capital, some 4 to 5 perpetrators entered their house when no one was there except for his wife. “They forced my wife to take sedatives and then raped her,” the husband said. A doctor at the DMCH emergency room told the Dhaka Tribune that the victim was first sent to the Gynaecology department for diagnosis. “Later, she will be transferred to the hospital's One Stop Crisis Centre (OCC),” he said. DMCH police outpost Sub-Inspector Md Bacchu Mia, confirming the authenticity of the incident, said they had already informed Rampura police station.