Eight accused remanded over Ctg gang rape
Two confess, three remanded in another similar case in Savar
A Chattogram court yesterday placed eight accused including a woman on remand in connection with a case filed for gang-raping a housewife in the port city's Chandgaon area early Friday, reports our staff correspondent from Chattogram.
Inspector (Investigation) Rajesh Barua of Chandgaon Police Station said the court placed Jagangir, a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver, also a key accused of the gang rape case, on a five-day remand while the rest seven on a three-day each.
The other accused are Md Yousuf (32), Md Ripon (27), Md Sujan (24), Debu Barua alias Jobayer Hossain (31), Md Shahed (24), Rintu Datta (30), and Monowara Begum alias Lebur Ma (55).
The court of the metropolitan magistrate, Khairul Amin, passed the remand order after police produced the accused before it with a seven-day remand prayer, said court sources.
Jahangir is known as an informant of Chandgaon Police Station, said locals. However, the law enforcers are yet to confirm it.
incident The took place around 1:30am on Friday and was led by Jahangir while the victim was returning home from Chattogram's Rangunia upazila.
The victim is now undergoing treatment at a One-Stop Crisis Centre of Chattogram Medical College Hospital.
Meanwhile, two arrestees among five confessed to raping the 23-year-old housewife in Savar, at a court in Dhaka yesterday, reports our Savar correspondent.
The court also placed three arrestees -- Antar (19), Jotirmoy Saha (20), and Milon (21) -- on a three-day remand each after Ashulia Police Station Inspector (Operation) Abdur Rashid, the investigation officer, produced them before it, court sources said.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Moniruzzaman recorded the confessional statements of Saiful Islam (18), and Pappu Saha (19), under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), said the IO.
According to the case statement, Saiful and Antar were earlier introduced with the woman, a resident of Mirpur in Dhaka. On September 23, they lured the housewife to an abandoned place in Ashulia where the two along with seven others raped her.