2 held over rape of RMG worker in Chattogram

Law enforcers today claimed to have arrested two accused in a case filed on charge of raping a 20-year-old ready-made garment worker in Chattogram’s Anwara upazila on Wednesday night.

The arrestees are Helal, 30, a CNG driver, and Mamun, 18, our Chattogram correspondent reports quoting Md Dulal Mahmud, officer-in-charge (OC) of Anwara Police Station.

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Police arrested the duo during separate drives in Chaturi and Bairag areas last night. They confessed to their involvement in the incident during primary investigation, the OC added.

Police are looking for two other accused in the case and also trying to track down the CNG-run autorickshaw used in the incident.

According to the case statement, the victim was returning home from her workplace at night on Wednesday with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw that already had three men in it.

The men in the auto-rickshaw abducted the girl and took her to an isolated place near Boiragi union’s China Road. Two of the men then gang-raped her.

Later, they took the girl in the auto-rickshaw and dumped her beside Chattogram-Anwara road. The criminals also called the victim’s family members and informed them about the incident, the case statement added.

The victim was rescued by her family members and rushed to Karnaphuli Upazila Health Complex. She was later shifted to Chattogram Medical College and Hospital.