Death of university student: Accused Raihan confesses to rape
Mortuza Raihan Chowdhury, an accused in a case filed over the death of a private university student, today confessed to a magistrate that he raped the victim at one of her friend's house in the capital's Mohammadpur area.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Satyabrata Sikder recorded Raihan's confessional statements after Investigation Officer Sajedul Haque, sub-inspector of Mohammadpur Police Station, produced him [Raihan] at his chamber, court sources said.
The details of the confessional statements could not be known yet.
The magistrate also sent Raihan to jail after recording the confessional statements.
Meanwhile, the same court today placed Farjana Jaman Neha, an accused, on a five-day remand after she was produced before the court with a seven-day remand prayer in the case.
Earlier, another Dhaka court on January 31 placed Raihan, 21, and Nuhat Alam Tafsir, 21, students of the same university, on a five-day remand in the case.
Mortuza Raihan and Nuhat Alam have been arrested following a case filed by the victim's father with Mohammadpur Police Station. In the lawsuit, the young woman's father made five of her friends accused.
According to the case documents, Raihan and the victim went to the house of Arafat from Mirpur at 4pm on January 28. The trio, later, went to a restaurant in city's Uttara area where their other two friends were waiting. They drank alcohol at the restaurant.
Rayhan and one of his friends took the young woman to one of her friend's house in Mohammadia Homes Limited in Mohammadpur as she fell sick and raped her there.
When the victim's physical condition deteriorated, the duo first took her to Dhanmondi Ibn Sina Hospital. As the hospital refused to handle the patient, she was then taken to Anwer Khan Modern Hospital where the victim succumbed to her injuries on the morning of January 31.
The victim's father lodged the case before her death.
One of the accused in the case Arafat, 28, who fell sick after drinking alcohol, also died at City Hospital in Mohammadpur on January 31.
The incident took place three weeks after an 'O' level student of Mastermind School was allegedly raped and murdered by her friend at a flat in the city's Kalabagan area.
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