Chhatra Odhikar Parishad: 2 leaders arrested, remanded in DU student rape case
Two out of four "missing" leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad were remanded yesterday in a rape case filed by a Dhaka University student.
Saiful Islam and Nazmul Huda were held on Sunday night, confirmed Rajib Al Masud, deputy commissioner of Detective Branch of Police (Lalbagh Division), to The Daily Star yesterday. "They were placed on a two-day remand each," he said.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Morshed Al Mamun Bhuiyan granted the remand after DB Inspector Wahiduzzaman produced them before the court with a seven-day remand prayer, he said.
Saiful is the joint convener of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad while Nazmul is vice-president of its DU committee.
Two other leaders of the platform -- Sohrab Hossain and Asif Mahmud -- had been missing till yesterday evening, said Parishad leaders. Both of them claimed in different Facebook posts that they were under the detention of some plainclothes men and released in the evening.
Activists of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad claimed the case was false and demanded immediate release of their leaders, at a gathering in front of National Museum at Shahbag. After that the protesters brought out a procession from Shahbag to Gulistan zero point around 2pm.
"Police wanted to quell nationwide anti-rape movement by arresting them. This kind of cruelty is never desirable," said the Parishad's acting convener Muhammad Rashed Khan at the gathering.
He demanded immediate release of the arrestees.
"We have arrested two and produced them before a Dhaka court. We have no idea about the detention and release of two missing leaders of the organisation," Walid Hossain, deputy commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told The Daily Star.
On September 20, a DU student filed the rape case against Saiful, Nazmul, former Ducsu VP Nurul Haque Nur, Hasan Al Mamun, suspended convener of Chhatra Odhikar Parishad; DU student Nazmul Hasan Sohag and Abdullah Hil Baki with Lalbagh Police Station.
She filed another case with Kotwali Police Station against the six on September 21 under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.
On October 8, the complainant started a hunger strike on the campus, demanding arrest of former Ducsu VP Nur and five others in the case.
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