A Garo child was raped in the capital’s Bhatara area on Tuesday while a factory worker was gang-raped in Gazipur’s Sreepur on Monday night.
Police arrested two men in connection with the rape in Gazipur.
In Dhaka, a 10-year-old Garo child was raped allegedly by a 22-year-old man named Al Amin, who was absconding when this report was filed.
The victim’s mother filed a case in this regard with Bhatara police station on the same day, said Inspector (Investigation) Sazzadur Rahman.
In her statement, the victim’s mother, an employee at a private firm in the area, said her daughter was on the way to school around 10am when Al Amin lured her into a house in Nayanagar, saying he would marry her, and then raped her.
The victim did not return home until 5pm. When her mother questioned her about the delay, she told her mother what had happened.
After the case was filed, police sent the victim to the One-Stop Crisis Centre (OCC) at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) around 10pm on Tuesday for medical examination.
OCC Coordinator Dr Bilkis Begum said evidence of rape had been found during primary examination. “The forensic tests are also complete and the report should come soon.”
Inspector Sazzad said police were looking for Al Amin and he would be arrested soon.
This incident happened around two and a half months after the rape of a Garo woman in the same area.
In Gazipur, a garment factory worker was gang-raped by six men in Chhatir Bazar area of Sreepur upazila on Monday night.
In her statement, the victim said on Monday evening, she heard about her husband, autorickshaw driver Jibon Miah, going to Chhatir Bazar with two unknown women. When she went there to verify, she found her husband with the women and two men.
The couple had an altercation when she confronted her husband, and at one point on Jibon’s instruction, one of the men accompanying him started beating the victim in public, in front of Jibon.
While she was being beaten, Jibon escaped with the women, and afterwards the man beating her went away as well. That is when another autorickshaw driver, named Rubel Miah, 26, offered to drive her to MC Bazar, where the victim’s resident is.
While Rubel was driving the autorickshaw, he made several calls from his mobile phone.
Instead of MC Bazar, Rubel took the victim near a bridge in Chhatir Bazar, where seven other men arrived as well.
The men tied her hands and feet and took turns in raping her. “I cried and cried, and begged Rubel not to violate me but he did not listen to me,” the victim said. Rubel also snatched away her gold chain and mobile phone.
She said she passed out after six of the eight men raped her. When she regained consciousness, she returned home with the help of a passer-by.
As the news of the rape spread, locals in MC Bazar took the victim along to search for Rubel on Tuesday morning, found him in the afternoon and handed him over to Sreepur police station.
Inspector Mohammad Ali Jinnah of Sreepur police station said police had verified the victim’s statement and found it to be true. “She was sent to Shahid Tajuddin Medical College Hospital for medical examinations before being sent to the OCC at the DMCH.”
In primary interrogation, Rubel confessed to having committed the crime and gave the names of four other rapists. Among them, police arrested Faruk Hossain, 40. The three others are Kamrul, 25, Nazibuddin, 27, and Afazuddin, 23. The victim filed a case against the rapists as well as her husband.
“My husband is the reason why I am in this situation now,” the victim said.
Sreepur police said they were working to arrest the other accused.
Five arrested in Jatrabari gang rape case
Police have arrested five persons in connection with the gang rape of a college student in the capital’s Jatrabari area on Tuesday.
The arrestees are Shadat, 23, Faisal, 25, Babu, 23, Robin, 23 and Sumi Akhter, 40. Among them, three were arrested on the spot on Tuesday evening, and the other two in Jatrabari yesterday. Among the four young detainees, three are students at Sir Salimullah Medical College, police said.
Police produced the arrestees before Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court yesterday, with a plea to place them on remand for 10 days. Metropolitan Magistrate Mollah Saiful Islam remanded Sumi for a day and the others for three days.
According to the case statement, the victim was gang-raped by local youths when she and her boyfriend visited the house of an acquaintance in Kutubkhali area.
The culprits tied up and beat her boyfriend, and raped her in front of him. They also snatched away some gold jewelleries and around Tk10,000 from the victim.
The victim’s father filed a case in this connection with Jatrabari police station late on Tuesday night.
During primary investigation, the arrestees confessed to robbing the victim, but denied the rape allegation, said Jatrabari police station OC Aboni Shankar Pal.
The flat in which the victim was raped belongs to Sumi, police added.
The victim was sent to the OCC for forensic tests, where the primary examination confirmed that she had been raped, said OCC Coordinator Dr Bilkis.
