UP chairman on remand in rape case
A court here yesterday placed a local union parishad chairman on a four-day remand for quizzing in a case filed against him on charge of raping a woman.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Hamidul Islam passed the order against Maksudur Rahman Milton Siddique, 50, chairman of Nagbari UP in Kalihati upazila, said advocate Ataur Rahman Azad, district unit general secretary of Bangladesh Manabadhikar Bastobayan Sangstha, also lawyer of the plaintiff.
The housewife filed the case against Maksudur with Kalihati Police Station on March 15 alleging that the UP chairman had raped her on March 14 after taking her to a resort at Elenga, in the name of an arbitration over dispute over the demarcation of her house with her neighbour, he said.
Later, the case was shifted to Tangail DB police, he added.
Maksudur took bail from a higher court in April that asked him to appear before a lower court by seven days, said Ashok Kumar Sinha, officer-in-charge of Tangail DB police.
Maksudur, however, did not comply with the higher court order, Sinha said.
The DB police arrested him from Nagbari on August 12 and produced him before the senior judicial magistrate's court in Tangail the next day seeking five-day remand for quizzing, he said.
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