'Rapists' bragged about their crime
The duo who raped a girl in a running microbus in the capital's Kuril area on May 21 bragged about the crime the next day, a witness in the case told a magistrate yesterday.
The “rapists”-- Ashraf Khan alias Tushar and Jahidul Islam Lavlu -- were drivers at a garment buying house in Gulshan.
In a statement before Metropolitan Magistrate SM Masud Zaman, witness Mohammad Khokon, a fellow driver at the buying house, said he had heard the two describing the rape of the indigenous girl to some others at their office on May 22, court sources said.
Two other witnesses, Mahbub Hossain, a security guard at a building in Banani where Tushar's employer lives, and Nur Alam also gave statements yesterday.
Mahbub in his statement before Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibul Haque said he had seen Tushar driving out of the building around 8:00 in the night of May 21.
While leaving the building, Tushar told him that he would return in 10 minutes. But he came back around midnight, court sources quoted Mahbub as saying.
It could not be verified whether the vehicle Tushar was driving was the one used in the rape.
Nur Alam gave his statement before Metropolitan Magistrate Md Maruf Hossain. However, it could not be known what he said in the statement.
Rab arrested Tushar and Lavlu from Patuakhali and Dhaka on Wednesday. The elite force claimed that the two, during primary interrogations, had confessed to having raped the girl in the running vehicle.
The girl was lured into the offenders' trap with an offer of a better job, according to the Rab.
In the case filed with Bhatara Police Station on May 22, the victim mentioned that five people had "gang-raped" her for over an hour that night. However, the Rab claimed that the heinous crime was committed by the two arrestees only.
REMAND FOR DUO
A Dhaka court yesterday placed Tushar and Lavlu on a 10-day remand each.
Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Kumar Dey passed the order after Investigation Officer Sajjad Hossain, who is officer-in-charge (investigation) of Bhatara Police Station, produced the duo before the court.
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