5 arrested for raping woman in Savar

Five men have been arrested on charges of raping a woman in Dhaka’s Savar, while two others have been accused of raping minors in separate incidents in Netrakona and Dhamrai.

In Savar, police yesterday arrested five men on charge of raping a 30-year-old woman in Dagarmora area on Sunday.

The arrestees are Arif, 22, Aminul, 35, Badal, 22, Alamgir, 22, and Kabir, 26. All of them are construction workers.

Around 8:00am on Sunday, the victim, a day-labourer, was looking for work at the Savar bus station. At that time, the five accused came to her and offered her to work in an under-construction building, the victim told The Daily Star.

They then took the woman to the building and raped her, the victim alleged.

She filed a complaint and we arrested the accused, said AFM Sayeed, OC of Savar Model Police Station.

Meanwhile, in Netrokona, family members of a 13-year-old on Sunday filed a case against a young man on charge of raping the girl at Sowyer in Mohanganj upazila.

Speaking to The Daily Star, the victim’s family said “an influential quarter of the area” were putting pressure on them to “take care of the matter” through social arbitration and not to go to police.

The accused Bappi Khandaker, 25, had been stalking the girl for long, the case statement read.

On August 1, the girl was walking in the yard of her residence around 8:30pm. Bappi then forcibly took her to a nearby jungle and raped her there, said Abdul Motalab Khokon, OC (Investigation) of Mohanganj Police Station.

Hearing her scream, locals rushed to the spot and rescued the girl. But the accused fled the scene, the OC said.

In Dhaka’s Dhamrai upazila, the father of a third-grader yesterday filed a case against one Hridoy Hossain on charge of raping the girl on Sunday at Kushuria area.