Tourist rape: Four-day remand for Cox’s Bazar hotel manager
Police manhunt to arrest the other accused is still on
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Abdul Aziz, Cox’s Bazar
Publish : 25 Dec 2021, 08:18 PMUpdate : 25 Dec 2021, 08:18 PM
A court in Cox’s Bazar has granted the police four days to question the manager of Zia Guest Inn and Hotel over the gang-rape of a female tourist.
Police produced Riaz Uddin Choton in the court of Cox’s Bazar Senior Judicial Magistrate Hamimun Tanjin on Saturday evening, requesting a seven-day remand.
According to Cox’s Bazar Tourist Police Superintendent Md Zillur Rahman, Riaz has been taken into custody as part of the investigation.
“Police have already completed necessary procedures, including preparing the woman’s medical report,” he said, adding that the police had come upon important information while investigating the case.
He said that the manhunt to arrest Ariful Islam Ashiq, Babu and the rest of the accused was still on.
Meanwhile, on Friday, the court recorded the statement of the rape survivor.
The woman went to Cox’s Bazar with her husband and eight-month-old baby on Tuesday. At Laboni Beach, the husband and a stranger got into an altercation after bumping into one another in the afternoon.
In the evening, some men picked up the husband and the child in an auto-rickshaw. Three others took the woman to a secluded place and raped her.
Later, they took her to Zia Guest Inn and raped her once again after an intake of yaba tablets.
RAB rescued the survivor at around 2am on Thursday and sent her to Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital one-stop crisis centre for treatment.
On Thursday night, the woman’s husband filed a case over the gruesome incident that left the nation and especially the tourism industry in a state of shock.
Tourist rape: Four-day remand for Cox’s Bazar hotel manager
A court in Cox’s Bazar has granted the police four days to question the manager of Zia Guest Inn and Hotel over the gang-rape of a female tourist.
Police produced Riaz Uddin Choton in the court of Cox’s Bazar Senior Judicial Magistrate Hamimun Tanjin on Saturday evening, requesting a seven-day remand.
According to Cox’s Bazar Tourist Police Superintendent Md Zillur Rahman, Riaz has been taken into custody as part of the investigation.
“Police have already completed necessary procedures, including preparing the woman’s medical report,” he said, adding that the police had come upon important information while investigating the case.
He said that the manhunt to arrest Ariful Islam Ashiq, Babu and the rest of the accused was still on.
Meanwhile, on Friday, the court recorded the statement of the rape survivor.
The woman went to Cox’s Bazar with her husband and eight-month-old baby on Tuesday. At Laboni Beach, the husband and a stranger got into an altercation after bumping into one another in the afternoon.
In the evening, some men picked up the husband and the child in an auto-rickshaw. Three others took the woman to a secluded place and raped her.
Later, they took her to Zia Guest Inn and raped her once again after an intake of yaba tablets.
RAB rescued the survivor at around 2am on Thursday and sent her to Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital one-stop crisis centre for treatment.
On Thursday night, the woman’s husband filed a case over the gruesome incident that left the nation and especially the tourism industry in a state of shock.