Quick action taken against perpetrators
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said members of law enforcement agency are acting quickly to arrest the accused in the Noakhali gang rape incident case.
"You could say there is no rule of law, if we were sitting quietly, or our law enforcers were sitting quietly and not doing anything or if our local administration was doing nothing," he said while replying to questions at his secretariat.
Everyone including the district deputy commissioner, UNO and superintendent of police are working in this regard, said Asaduzzaman.
Questioned about the police and local administration's ignorance on this brutality for a month before it went viral on social media, the minister said, "Victims usually hide after such incidents happen to them. They do not want to disclose the matter. I don't know what happened in this case. When it came to our knowledge and our law enforcers saw it, they started working and caught them very quickly."
He also dismissed a question on culture of impunity resulting in such incidents by saying "trial of such incidents is taking place."
There has been widespread outrage on social media and on the streets as the graphic video of a woman in Noakhali being gang-raped was uploaded and shared on the night of October 4.
The incident happened in Noahkhali's Begumganj upazila at Joykrishnapur village of Eklashpur union on September 2. But police and local administration apparently were ignorant until the video sparked a wave of protests.
So far, a total of six people including Badal and "Delwar Bahini" chief Delwar were arrested amid widespread outrage over the incident.
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