Three land in jail for raping woman
A Bogura court yesterday sent three men to jail in connection with the rape of a woman in the district's Sherpur upazila.
The victim, a domestic help, filed a rape case with Sherpur Police Station accusing four men on Thursday.
The accused are Mamun Pramanik, 35, Mohammad Sohag Sarkar, 22, Abdul Khalek, 50, and Dulu Sheikh, 32, of the same upazila.
All four accused are rickshaw pullers by profession, the case statement read.
According to the case statement, the victim, a resident of the district's Dhunat upazila, came to Sherpur bus stand area in search of work. The four accused started following her from there.
At one point, one of the accused lured her with work and took her to an isolated area. The four men then started raping her one by one around 8:00pm on Thursday.
Hearing the victim scream, locals rushed to the spot and held three of them red-handed. Dulu, another accused, however, managed to flee the scene.
Later, locals handed the three accused to police, said Shahidul Islam, officer-in-charge of Sherpur Police Station.
Mohammad Gaziur Rahman, additional superintendent of police in Sherpur, said, "Police are trying to arrest the fourth accused. We'll send the victim to the hospital tomorrow [today] for medical tests."
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