A Chattogram court on Thursday sentenced a former police officer to 10 years of imprisonment each in two separate cases involving attempts to rape a college girl and abduct her in the port city about a decade ago.
The convict is Mizanur Rahman, a former officer-in-charge (investigation) of Kosba police station in Brahmanbaria district.
Chattogram Women and Children Repression and Prevention Tribunal-7 Judge Ferdous Ara delivered the judgment in the presence of the defendant.
The court also fined him Tk 1 lakh and Tk 2 lakh in the cases, in default, he will have to serve another one year and six months of imprisonment respectively, said the court’s Public Prosecutor Khandakar Ariful Alam.
According to court documents, the former police officer picked the then intermediate first-year student of Ispahani School and College from the city’s amusement park--Foy’s Lake--when she was with her boyfriend.
Taking to a room at a hotel in the city’s Chawkbazar area, the police officer tried to rape her on July 12, 2011.
The hotel’s staff rescued the girl hearing her screams from inside the room when she tried to commit suicide by breaking glass of the room’s bathroom.
On July 16, the victim’s father filed two cases accusing the police officer and two staff of the hotel with Panchlaish police station.
Of them, the first case was filed for an attempt to rape and another for abduction.
After completing legal procedures, the court handed down the judgment on Thursday.
Mizanur was fired after the allegations of attempting to rape the college girl surfaced.
