Husband, 4 others 'rape' pregnant woman
A pregnant woman has allegedly been gang-raped by her husband and four others in Abhaynagar of Jessore.
The victim made the complaint in a media briefing at Crime Reporters Association Bangladesh in the capital's Segunbagicha yesterday.
She said her husband on July 7 took her to the hotel he owns for arbitration over abortion and then tried to force her to abort the pregnancy. She was three months pregnant then.
When she refused, her husband, former general secretary of Abhaynagar upazila Jubo League Sheikh Saifar, Sumon, Azim Mollah and Rubel Mollah raped her, she alleged.
She claimed that she filed two cases on July 25 with a Jessore court as the officer-in-charge of Abhaynagar Police Station refused to record a case and asked her to file the complaint with a court.
The victim said one of the case was for rape and the other case was against her husband for adultery.
The court later asked Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to investigate the cases.
Contacted, Sheikh Saifar refuted the allegation. “I am 57 years of age and cannot even think of such a thing,” Saifar told The Daily Star. He claimed that he was victim of a conspiracy.
Anisur Rahman, OC of Abhaynagar Police Station, said the woman never went to him.
At the press conference, the victim alleged that she fled home due to continuous threat from the rapists.
Emdadul Haque, inspector of PBI of Jessore, also the investigation officer of the case, told The Daily Star yesterday that he got the investigation charge of the rape case on Wednesday.
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