‘Inciting Rape’: Youth held over provocative posts on social media

Rab claimed to have arrested a youth from Dhaka's Khilkhet area on charges of making provocative posts on Facebook against anti-rape protests and inciting rape.

Sheikh Mohd Sharaf Nawar (19) was arrested on Saturday morning, said Mushfiqur Rahman Tushar, a squad commander of Rab-1.

The Rab official said at a time when people are protesting rape and other violence against women and children, some people are trying to create chaos by making provocative posts on social media. The arrestee even uploaded posts inciting rape, they added.

Screenshots of some of the posts went viral, with demand to arrest him. Rab has already identified at least five others who made similar offence, the Rab official said.

A resident of Adabar area, Nawar is apparently a member of a local juvenile gang. He left the area after netizens demanded his arrest, said Rab.

A case was filed with Khilkhet Police Station under Digital Security Act and the accused has been handed over to police.

TWO HELD ON RAPE CHARGES

Two persons were arrested from the capital's Sabujbagh area yesterday after a girl filed a case against them on Saturday night on charges of rape and abetting rape, after promising of marriage.

The arrestees are -- the alleged rapist Sabuj Mia (32) and  his accomplice Abdus Samad (35) -- after the 18-year old girl filed the  case under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act with Sabujbagh  Police Station.

The girl was sent to one-stop crisis centre at Dhaka Medical College  Hospital for medical tests, said Sub-inspector Riaz Uddin Sarker of the  police station. 

The SI said the girl got acquainted with Sabuj through Facebook six months ago and developed a relationship with him.

On October 4, she went to his house after he promised to marry her.  He kept her there and raped her several times till yesterday, the SI  said quoting the case statement.

Sabuj gave various excuses when the girl asked him to marry her. She  then filed the case where she mentioned Samad as Sabuj's accomplice,  the police officer added.