Court asks police to sue KAU ex-VC, registrar for rape

A Khulna court on Monday ordered the officer-in-charge of Sonadanga Police Station to file a rape case against former vice-chancellor and registrar of Khulna Agriculture University.

Abdus Salam, Judge of the Women and Children Oppression Control Tribunal of Khulna, handed down the order today after hearing a petition, Advocate Farid Ahmed, special public prosecutor of the court, confirmed the BSS this afternoon.

Earlier, the complainant, submitted the petition before the court against ex-VC Shahedur Rahman and incumbent Registrar Khandokar Mazharul Anwar Shajahan of the university. The judge ordered the Sonadanga OC to take the complaint as a rape case after the hearing.

Quoting the FIR, the PP Advocate Farid told BSS that ex-VC Shahedur Rahman who used to live on the fifth floor of the university building in the city as his family members were in Mymensing.

The complainant used to supply cooked food to the VC’s residence every day since he joined the university. The former VC proposed her to maintain illicit sexual relations in different times.

The victim informed it to the registrar saying that she will not supply food in future. After getting assuring from registrar that VC would not do such type of activities in future, the victim resumed regular food supply to the VC.