Police are interrogating Banani rape case accused Shafaat Ahmed and Shadman Sakif at Detective Branch (DB) of Police Office in Dhaka.
Deputy Commissioner Sheikh Nazmul Alam confirmed the matter to the Dhaka Tribune on Friday.
He said: “They were brought to Dhaka from Sylhet for primary interrogation this morning.”
Sahely Ferdous, assistant inspector general (Media) of police headquarters, told Dhaka Tribune:
“The arrestees will be produced before a Dhaka court today.”
Meanwhile, DMP ADC (Media) Md Yusuf Ali said they will brief the media over the incident of rape later in the day.
They were arrested from a two-storey building named Rashid Manjil in Sylhet city’s Pathntula area Thursday night.
According to the case filed with Banani police station on May 6, Shafaat, the son of Dildar Ahmed, one of the owners of Apan Jewellers, and his friend Nayeem Ashraf, the second accused, allegedly raped the two university students while Shafaat’s bodyguard held the girls at gunpoint at Raintree Hotel in Banani on March 28.
Shafaat’s driver Billal, 26, the fourth suspect, videotaped the incident.
Shadman had introduced the two girls to the rapists, and he was the one who convinced the two to visit Raintree Hotel that night, telling them they would be attending a birthday party.
Police first attempted to arrest the men on Tuesday, going to the house of Shafaat, and found that he and his passport were missing.
The same day, officials at the Regent Park Resort in Thakurbari Thillapara in Sylhet recognised Shafaat, accompanied by three others, as he unsuccessfully tried to rent a room there. They left before the officials could notify the police.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
