PBI presses rape charges against ASI, 4 others

The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has pressed charges against five persons, including an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police, yesterday in a rape case filed at end of October last year.

The charge-sheeted accused are Mohammad Rahenul Islam, an ASI of Rangpur police, Sumaiya Parvin Meghla, Suravi Aktar, Mohammad Babu, and Mohammad Kalam.

Rahenul has been suspended after the incident.

Saiful Islam, an inspector of PBI in Rangpur, filed the 367-page charge sheet against the five persons, including Rahenul, yesterday noon before the court.

Court sources said that PBI pressed charges against Rahenul and two other women Meghla and Suravi, under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, while human trafficking charge was pressed against Kalam and Babul, who were arrested from Lalmonirhat.

ABM Zakir Hossain, superintendent of PBI in Rangpur, confirmed to the local journalists.

A court source, quoting the charge sheet, said that accused Rahenul Islam, who was then posted to Haragachh Police Station, built an affair relationship with a tenth grader girl of Haragachh Municipality in Kaunia upazila of Rangpur.

Rahenul went to the rented house of Sumaiya Parvin Meghla, taking the tenth grader victim on October 18 last year.

There he raped the girl. Later, Rahenul himself had dropped the girl at her home at around 10:00pm.

Babul and Kalam raped the girl again later that night. After the rape, the girl became sick.

Police rescued the girl the next day from the rented house of Meghla.

Afterward, the girl's father filed a case with Haragachh Police Station accusing Rahenul and Meghla.

The case was later handed over to PBI in Rangpur.

The PBI high officials said the victim gave her testimony before the court. Rahenul also confessed his involvement with the incident.

DNA testing was also conducted on the victim and the accused. It was a gang-rape, as the police investigation found, said the SP.