2 held over ‘gang-rape’ of woman
Police yesterday arrested two youths over the alleged gang-rape of a woman in Hijla upazila of Barishal.
The arrestees are Zakir Hossain, 25, an auto-rickshaw driver from Barguna, and Saiful, 22, a local resident of Hijla, said police.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Hijla Police Station SM Maksudur Rahman said the 30-year-old victim works in Dhaka and came to her village home in Mehendiganj upazila to celebrate Eid.
On Friday, she was going to Hijla by trawler. On the way, she got introduced to auto-rickshaw driver Zakir, said police.
After the two got off the boat at Ekota Kheyaghat in Hijla, 4-5 youths showed up there, OC Maksudur said, quoting the woman. They beat up Zakir and forced the woman to a nearby fish farm and raped her, he added.
On information from locals, police rescued her from the farm around 1:00pm. The victim filed a case with Hijla Police Station on Friday night, citing four names including local youth Saiful and 10-12 unidentified people.
Police suspect that auto-rickshaw driver Zakir was involved in the crime, but the case statement does not mention his name as an accused.
When asked about the three other accused, police declined to give their names but said all three were local youths, and they were trying to arrest them.
The woman was sent to Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital for medical examination.
Police could not give her personal and family details immediately.
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