Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-6 have arrested four people in connection with the gang rape of a woman in Khulna city on Wednesday night.
The arrestees are auto-rickshaw drivers Belal Morol, 46, and Azizur Rahman Mithu, 40, bakery worker Jihad Munshi, 24, and student Md Rasel, 22.
On December 13, the couple was returning to their Phulbari Gate home from bypass area in the city around 8pm.
The accused riding on two motorbikes obstructed the couple, searched them introducing themselves as officials of police.
Then they took the woman and her husband to an abandoned house where they blindfolded the husband and raped her for around three hours.
The alleged rapists videoed the whole thing and threatened them not to disclose this.
Aranghata police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Wahiduzzaman said that such incidents using the name of administration is unfortunate.
Pahan Chakma, senior assistant superintendent of the RAB-6, said they came to know the incident from their sources and asked the couple to come further to Khulna Medical College Hospital where they disclosed the incident.
The victim is now undergoing treatment at One-stop Crisis Centre of the KMCH, he said.
