PBI starts probe, one 'rapist' held in Ctg

Soon after taking over the multiple rape case from Karnaphuli police, the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) in Chittagong on Monday night arrested one of the alleged rapists of four women of a family during a robbery on December 13.

Mizan Matabbar, 45, a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver, of Mongla in Bagerhat, was arrested in Chittagong city's EPZ area. During primary interrogation, Mizan admitted his involvement, said PBI's Inspector Santosh Kumar Chakma.

Mizan was giving confessional statement before Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Al Imran till filing of this report, said Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) (prosecution) Nirmalendu Bikash Chawakrabarty.

A total of five assailants participated in the crime that was plotted by one Abu Sama, said PBI officials, adding that Sama stood guard outside while the rest entered the house around 1:00am.

Mizan took Tk 13,000 as his share out of the total Tk 80,000 they looted from the house, said the officials, adding that they recovered Tk 2,010 and the lungi Mizan was wearing that night.

Meanwhile, a Chittagong court yesterday sent Bappy, one of the three arrested by police so far, to jail after he was produced with a seven-day remand prayer.

Rejecting his remand prayer, the court also ordered to provide necessary medical treatment to Bappy, they added.

Four women -- three expatriate siblings' wives and their sister-in-law -- were raped by four robbers in Shahmirpur village of Karnaphuli upazila in the early hours of December 13.