BCL leader held over rape of woman
Police yesterday arrested the organising secretary of Chattogram South District Bangladesh Chhatra League on charges of raping a mother of two.
The arrestee is Akibul Islam Akib, 27, of Chattogram’s Anwara upazila.
Quoting the case statement, Moin Uddin, inspector (investigation) of Bakalia Police Station, told The Daily Star that the woman, a divorcee, was in a relationship with Akibul, who introduced him as a police officer.
Promising her marriage, Akibul had raped her for the last five months, he said.
The victim also alleged that he took Tk 10 lakh from her.
She filed the case against Akibul with the police station in the morning.
Police arrested him around noon and produced him before a Chattogram court that sent him to jail, the police official said.
The woman was sent to the One Stop Crisis Centre at Chattogram Medical College Hospital for medical tests.
Contacted, SM Borhan Uddin, president of Chattogram South District BCL, told this correspondent that they would take disciplinary action against Akibul.
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