O-level student rape, murder: security guard of Fardin's residence picked up for interrogation

Police today picked up a security guard of the building in Dhaka's Kalabagan area, where a 17-year-old O-level student was raped before her death on Thursday, for interrogation.

Dulal, aged about 45, was under police surveillance. Police took him in custody after he came to the building around 12:00pm today, said Sajjadur Rahman, deputy commissioner (Ramna Division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

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"He is not an accused in the case. We will try to find out that he saw on that day," he added.

Police earlier said they were looking for him as he helped the lone accused, Fardin Iftekhar Dihan, to carry the victim out of the house and he might know something.

A medical officer and a staffer of Anwar Khan Medical College Hospital, where the girl was taken first, said Fardin along with another young man brought the girl in a car.

Doctors said she died before they reached the hospital.

A forensic doctor at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after post mortem said they found evidence of rape and injury marks on the victim's body. He suspected that the girl died due to hemorrhagic shock and excessive bleeding.

The girl's father filed a case with Kalabagan Police Station, accusing Fardin who recently passed A-levels.

Police picked up three of his friends who visited the private hospital on that day but released them later upon undertaking.

Victim's family members, however, raised questions why the three were released by police.