Gang rapes girl on boat
Just under a week after a woman was raped in a running microbus in Dhaka, a girl was gang-raped on a boat by four people in Gazipur's Kaliganj upazila on Wednesday night.
Two “rapists” were arrested.
The 18-year-old girl is said to be a worker of a company in Palash upazila of Narsingdi.
Around 8:00pm on Wednesday, the girl along with her co-workers boarded a boat, owned by the company, in the Shitalakhya river to go to her home at Nargana in Kaliganj upazila, said Arif Hossain, an assistant sub-inspector of Kaliganj Police Station.
After all her co-workers got down at Nargana ghat, two people -- Al Amin and Fahim -- who worked on the boat, took the boat to a nearby place and then raped the girl. Two others -- Faruk and Sharif -- who worked on another boat, joined the duo and violated the girl, said the police official, quoting the victim.
Hearing her screams, locals rescued the girl on Thursday morning. As per allegations of the girl, police later caught Faruk and Sharif.
Mustafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Kaliganj Police Station, yesterday said a case was filed in this connection. “The girl is now in police custody.”
Locals alleged that the evidence of rape would be destroyed as police kept the girl waiting at the police station instead of arranging immediate medical attention.
Only a few days ago, the country was outraged by the gang-rape of a woman, belonging to an indigenous community, in a microbus in the capital's Kuril area.
Prior to this, sexual abuse on women during Pahela Baishakh celebrations at Dhaka University and Jahangirnagar University drew widespread outrage and triggered protests.
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