Court asks police to file rape case against ex-VC, Registrar of KAU

A court in Khulna on Monday ordered the Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Sonadanga Police Station to file a rape case against former vice-chancellor (VC) and Registrar of Khulna Agriculture University (KAU).

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 (PP) of the court, confirmed the news.

Earlier, the complainant, (a woman store keeper of the university) 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.