2 arrested, sent to jail
Police picked up two people at the capital's Uttara Friday night in connection with the gang-rape of a girl there on Thursday.
A court yesterday sent arrestees, Babu, 22, caretaker of an under-construction building in Uttara, and Aslam, 19, to jail, said Biplob Kishore Sheel, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Uttara Pashchim Police Station.
The two made confessional statements before a magistrate yesterday, the police officer said.
Babu told the magistrate that they had planned the rape Thursday afternoon, the OC said.
The 17-year-old girl, an employee of a superstore in Uttara, was gang-raped in the building, allegedly by one of her fellow colleagues and his two cohorts.
Rapid Action Battalion on Friday morning picked up her co-worker Arif, 20, at Uttara. Rab handed him over to the police station yesterday.
Forensic tests carried out at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday found evidence that the girl was raped, said Bilkis Begum, coordinator of the DMCH's One-Stop Crisis Centre. The girl was undergoing treatment at the centre.
She said a full forensic report would be available in a few days and that they would collect samples for DNA tests today.
A case was filed with Uttara Paschim Police Station in this connection on Friday.
Talking to The Daily Star, victim's brother said her sister had been working at the shop for around one month. She was forcibly taken to the building around 8:30pm on Thursday.
The trio threatened her with life and each of them violated her in turn on the first floor of the building. Around two hours later, she jumped off the building, and reached home with the help of a rickshaw puller, added the brother.
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