Case filed against eight for provoking suicide
Police filed a case against four youths and four other unnamed persons on charge of provoking suicide by threatening to release the victim’s nude video on the internet at Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila.
The accused are: Siam (22), Sadeq (25), Rony (18), Shyamol (25) and four others.
The accused had a long-standing rivalry with the victim, Md Jamal Uddin, 43. All of them are residents of Tepirbari area of Sreepur upazila.
On Sunday evening, the accused and Jamal locked in an altercation over a motorcycle. At one stage, they forcibly took Jamal to a nearby Shal forest, gang-raped him, and took photos and videos, claimed the victim’s son, Rakibul Hasan Ridoy.
Then they tried to extort Tk 2 lakh from Jamal, threatening to release the photos and videos on the internet, according to Rakibul. They released Jamal at around 9pm that night.
Traumatised by the incident, the victim committed suicide at around 11am on Monday at his residence.
Early yesterday, the victim’s son filed a case on different criminal charges, including provoking suicide, committing crime under Pornography Control Act, and extortion.
Police arrested one Moniruzzaman for his suspected involvement with the incident, said Md Nayon Bhuiyan, sub-inspector of Sreepur Police Station. However, none of the eight accused had been arrested until 10pm last night.
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