Khulna cop jailed for 14yrs for abducting woman

A Khulna court sentenced a police constable to 14 years imprisonment and fined Tk 20,000 for abducting a woman in the city two years ago.

Judge Mohammad Mahiduzzaman of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 delivered the verdict against Miraj Uddin from Arpara village in Jhenidah, court sources said.

During the occurrence, Miraj was posted at Khulna Police Lines.

According to the case statement, the woman visited a park in the city’s Khalishpur with one of her husband’s friends on December 26, 2017. Her five-year-old son was with them.

Then Miraj, who somehow knew that they were not husband and wife, went there and took some photographs of them.

The policeman took Tk 2,200 from the woman on the spot by blackmailing her. Later, he took her to a hotel in Gollamari.

She, in her case, mentioned that Miraj raped her at the hotel.

The constable was arrested there the same day after her husband’s friend, who followed the constable, informed Khalishpur police of the matter.

Public Prosecutor Farid Ahmed told The Daily Star that the rape allegation was not proved. Miraj was convicted for abducting the woman, he said.