Court records survivor’s statement as police fail to make any arrest
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Abdul Aziz, Cox’s Bazar
Publish : 24 Dec 2021, 10:01 PMUpdate : 24 Dec 2021, 10:01 PM
Police have said that the woman had previous acquaintance with one of the men who gang-raped her at a hotel in Cox's Bazar on Wednesday night while holding her husband and child hostage.
“Contrary to her previous statement that she and her family came to Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday, the woman had actually been staying at various hotels here for the past three months,” said the district’s Superintendent of Police Zillur Rahman at a press briefing on Friday afternoon.
Earlier in the day, police had taken the woman and her husband into custody for questioning.
Later, the woman was produced before a court where she gave a statement, confirmed Tourist Police Inspector Ruhul Amin.
Cox's Bazar Senior Judicial Magistrate Hamimun Tanjin recorded the rape survivor’s statement at around 5pm on Friday, said Amin, who is also the case’s investigating officer.
However, no arrests were made until Friday night.
The rape survivor’s husband filed a case at Cox’s Bazar Sadar police station against four named and three other unnamed persons on Thursday night.
The named accused are Ariful Islam Ashiq, Babu, Israfil and Riaz Uddin.
Two of the alleged rapists, Ashiq and Joy, have been identified from CCTV camera footage at the hotel.
Ashiq and Joy both are listed as local muggers.
According to locals and police sources, Ashiq runs a gang of 32 youths who commit mugging in groups. He had been in jail in a case and was released on bail recently.
On Wednesday, the husband and a stranger got into an altercation after bumping into one another in the afternoon at Laboni Beach.
In the evening, some men picked up the husband and the child in an auto-rickshaw, while three others took the woman to a secluded place and raped her there.
Later, they took her to Zia Guest Inn and raped her once again after smoking yaba pills.
RAB rescued the survivor around 2am on Thursday and sent her to Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital one-stop crisis centre for treatment.
Cox’s Bazar gang-rape survivor knew her attackers
Police have said that the woman had previous acquaintance with one of the men who gang-raped her at a hotel in Cox's Bazar on Wednesday night while holding her husband and child hostage.
“Contrary to her previous statement that she and her family came to Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday, the woman had actually been staying at various hotels here for the past three months,” said the district’s Superintendent of Police Zillur Rahman at a press briefing on Friday afternoon.
Earlier in the day, police had taken the woman and her husband into custody for questioning.
Later, the woman was produced before a court where she gave a statement, confirmed Tourist Police Inspector Ruhul Amin.
Cox's Bazar Senior Judicial Magistrate Hamimun Tanjin recorded the rape survivor’s statement at around 5pm on Friday, said Amin, who is also the case’s investigating officer.
However, no arrests were made until Friday night.
The rape survivor’s husband filed a case at Cox’s Bazar Sadar police station against four named and three other unnamed persons on Thursday night.
The named accused are Ariful Islam Ashiq, Babu, Israfil and Riaz Uddin.
Two of the alleged rapists, Ashiq and Joy, have been identified from CCTV camera footage at the hotel.
Ashiq and Joy both are listed as local muggers.
According to locals and police sources, Ashiq runs a gang of 32 youths who commit mugging in groups. He had been in jail in a case and was released on bail recently.
On Wednesday, the husband and a stranger got into an altercation after bumping into one another in the afternoon at Laboni Beach.
In the evening, some men picked up the husband and the child in an auto-rickshaw, while three others took the woman to a secluded place and raped her there.
Later, they took her to Zia Guest Inn and raped her once again after smoking yaba pills.
RAB rescued the survivor around 2am on Thursday and sent her to Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital one-stop crisis centre for treatment.