Girl gang-raped
Co-worker, his cohorts accused
A female worker of a shop was gang-raped allegedly by one of her fellow colleagues and his two cohorts in the capital's Uttara area Thursday night.
The incident reportedly took place barely two months after a Garo saleswoman was gang-raped in a moving microbus while she was returning home from work in the city.
The girl, aged around 17, was an employee of a super shop at Rajlaxmi Complex in Uttara.
The victim's brother told The Daily Star that her sister, who had been working in the shop for around one month, was forcibly taken to an under-construction building when she was returning home after work around 8:30pm.
The trio threatened her with death and raped her by turns on the first floor of the building. Around two hours later, the girl jumped off the building, and reached home with the help of a rickshaw puller, he said.
The victim, who passed the SSC exam this year, came to Dhaka from Barisal two months ago in search of a job. She has been staying at her maternal uncle's house in Uttara's sector-12.
After hearing everything from the girl, the family took her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 3:00am yesterday. She was undergoing treatment at the One-Stop Crisis Centre at the hospital.
Bilkis Begum, coordinator of the centre, told The Daily Star that in preliminary tests they found evidence of rape.
The girl would undergo forensic tests today, she said.
On information, officials from Uttara Paschim Police Station recorded victim's statement at the hospital.
Biplob Kishore Sheel, inspector (investigation) of the police station, said police were trying to arrest the rapists.
Meanwhile, Rab-1 detained a youth named Arif for interrogation in this connection, said the battalion's Commanding Officer Lt Col Tuhin Mohammad Masud.