A mother of a minor girl, who was allegedly raped by a local elderly man at Rangunia upazila in Chittagong, filed a case yesterday against the two police officers for allegedly destroying evidence of the rape case.
The case was filed with the court of Mir Safiqul Islam, judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal 2 in Chittagong, accusing Officer-in-Charge Humayun Kabir and Sub-Inspector Mojibur Rahman of Rangunia police station.
According to the case, the police officers tore away the statement of the rape case filed by the victim’s mother and also snatched away the document of the victim’s abortion, plaintiff’s counsel Advocate Arshadul Rahman Ritu told the Dhaka Tribune.
In addition, the OC also took the signature of the victim’s mother in a blank paper and forcibly filed another rape case accusing the victim’s brother, mentioning his age as 18 years when he is actually 14, Ritu said.
The court took cognisanse of the case and scheduled the delivery of the verdict on the issue today, the lawyer said.
Sources said the girl in question, a 13-year-old, was allegedly raped by Md Shah Alam, in whose residence she was employed as a domestic help, on May 8. The victim got pregnant from the rape and had an abortion at a local hospital in Rangunia.
The victim’s mother filed a rape case against Shah Alam on the day of the incident with Rangunia police station. Police arrested Shah Alam after the case was filed, but later they released him after local policians put pressure on them for his release, as Shah Alam is a man of influence in the area.
To hide the real culprit, police then framed the victim’s 14-year-old brother in the rape case, arrested him and produced him before a court, who sent the boy to Gazipur Juvenile Development Centre, Advocate Ritu said.
A High Court lawyer filed a writ petition with the High Court in this regard after reports on this matter was published in in several national dailies, following which the High Court directed Rangunia police on Saturday to arrest Shah Alam.
Later, The victim’s mother filed a rape case with the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal 2 accusing Shah Alam on Monday.
