5 arrested for raping girl
Police arrested five youths in the city's Chawkbazar and Bahaddarhat areas overnight Thursday over raping a college student four days ago.
Introducing themselves as detectives, six youths, including the five arrestees, on Monday night entered the rented flat of two female college students in Kapasgola area, said Yasir Arafat, sub-inspector of Chawkbazar Police Station.
At one stage, one of the youths raped the college student while another filmed the incident with a mobile phone, said the SI quoting the victim.
The intruders also took away some valuables from the flat.
The arrestees are Mohiuddiun, 22, Saimun Islam Sakib, 22, Asif Iqbal, 25, Rajbir Hossen, 25, and Mossaraf Hossain Akash, 22. Of them, two were picked up from Baruipara of Bahaddarhat and the rest from Chawkbazar area.
The victim filed a case on Thursday night with Chawkbazar Police Station, accusing six unnamed people.
SI Arafat, also the investigation officer of the case, said the female master's students, both aged about 23, were taking preparations for BCS exams. A math teacher and a male friend of the students used to visit the flat to tutor one of them. Some of the arrestees noticed this for several days.
The six youths entered the flat around 8:00pm on Monday when the math teacher and the male friend were also there. The intruders charged that they were involved in unsocial activities and demanded Tk 4 lakh from them, said the SI.
At one stage, one of the youths violated the victim. They also snatched four mobile phones, a laptop and Tk 7,000 from the four and threatened them not to share the incident with anyone else, said the SI.
According to the cop, the arrestees during primary interrogation admitted their involvement in the crime. Police recovered two mobile phones from their possession.
A Chittagong court yesterday sent the five to jail after they were produced before it.
Police were trying to arrest the other accused in the case.
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