Gazipur Rape: All 4 culprits drug addicts, dropouts
All of them were school dropouts with an unflinching addiction to drugs.
They used to squander most of their time on tattling in tea stalls, teasing girls, and doing drugs -- even in broad daylight.
Although exasperated by their recklessness, locals barely went that far to confront them fearing harassment.
Their parents attempted several times to keep a tight rein on them, but in vain.
Unruliness of the four youths came to light after they allegedly raped a 15-year-old girl in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila on January 15.
What was even more shocking that they filmed the incident and shared it on social media. They also released another video saying, “Hello friends! We might be in jail tomorrow. So there is a little chance we will meet you again.”
Rab arrested the four on Friday in a case filed by the victim’s mother with Sreepur Police Station on January 16.
The four are Sharif Hossain, 18, Imran Hasan Sujan, 19, Sharif Uddin Mollah, 20, and a 16-year-old boy.
According to the case statement, the incident took place on January 15 when the girl attended Sujan’s birthday party at his house.
The perpetrators served her a drink spiked with sedatives. When she fell unconscious, the four accused took her to a bush and raped her.
Visiting the Nayanpur neighbourhood in Sreepur on Monday, these correspondents found that most locals were aware of their wicked activities.
In the last two and a half years, Sharif married four women and divorced three of them.
Sharif’s relatives said he was too disobedient to listen to their words.
“He deserved a punishment. Now he will repent his deeds,” said Sharif’s father Sabaj Uddin Molla, a day-labourer who is utterly frustrated with his son’s activities, while talking to The Daily Star.
He said his son was dropped out of school when he was in class V.
A neighbour of Sharif said, he used to take drugs and maintained close relations with drug dealers in the locality.
Another arrestee Sujan has recently left school, said family members.
Locals said, the 16-year-old arrestee was a drug peddler in the area.
The Daily Star spoke to some local shopkeepers in Mollapara area where the four accused spent most of their daytime.
The shopkeepers said they didn’t dare to protest their aggressive behaviour fearing insult.
The video, they captured on January 16 night, was recorded at a local salon in Nayanpur bus stand area. The salon is owned by one Habibur Rahman.
“When I was about to shut my salon around 10:00pm, the four came to my shop and recorded the video,” Habibur said.
He claimed he was outside the salon when the video was captured.
The rape incident and the video sparked a backlash on social media.
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