PBI presses rape charges against ASI, 4 others Our Correspondent, Dinajpur Our Correspondent, Dinajpur
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has pressed charges against five persons, including an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police, yesterday in a rape case filed at end of October last year.
The charge-sheeted accused are Mohammad Rahenul Islam, an ASI of Rangpur police, Sumaiya Parvin Meghla, Suravi Aktar, Mohammad Babu, and Mohammad Kalam.
Rahenul has been suspended after the incident.
Saiful Islam, an inspector of PBI in Rangpur, filed the 367-page charge sheet against the five persons, including Rahenul, yesterday noon before the court.
Court sources said that PBI pressed charges against Rahenul and two other women Meghla and Suravi, under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, while human trafficking charge was pressed against Kalam and Babul, who were arrested from Lalmonirhat.
Faruk and Babu were arrested in the afternoon, while the two others were arrested in the evening.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team raided a fishing boat on a canal in Chowfaldondi area around 1:00pm yesterday, said Mohammad Hasanuzzaman, superintendent of police (SP) of Cox s Bazar.
The police team recovered seven sacks of yaba tablets from the boat. There were around 14 lakh tablets in the seven sacks, said the SP.
A syndicate is involved with this huge consignment of yaba pills, the SP said, adding that it was one of the largest consignments recovered by law enforcement agencies in recent times.