4 held over gang rape in Ashulia Our Correspondent, Savar Our Correspondent, Savar
Police yesterday arrested four people on charge of gang rape of a RMG worker in Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital.
The arrestees are Saiful Islam Babu, 23, Md Arif, 22, Abu Bakkar, 25, and Rana Mollah, 28, of Gazirchat in Ashulia.
The eighteen-year-old victim was sent to the One-stop Crisis Centre of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said Ziaul Islam, inspector of Ashulia Police Station, adding that they held the accused from Gazirchat area.
A rape case was filed against the four with the police station, he said.
According to the case statement, the accused forcibly took her to an abandoned room of a house of Saiful and gang-raped her on Wednesday night when she was returning home from a friend s house at Gazirchat.
Police say brick-sand trade, not election, behind BCL man’s murder in Ctg Star Online Report Star Online Report
Ashikur Rahman Rohit, an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in Chattogram, was stabbed to death over the brick-sand trade and not elections, said police. The dispute over Chattogram City Corporation election was not behind the murder of Rohit. The killing happened over the area-based club and to control the brick-sand trade, said SM Mehedi Hasan, deputy commissioner (south) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP), in a press briefing at his office today.
Police made the findings during the primary interrogation of two arrestees and further investigation, our Chattaogram correspondent reports, quoting the deputy police commissioner.