Tuesday, May 07, 2024
A court in Dhaka on Sunday remanded four people including a BCL leader for three days allowing police to interrogate them in a case filed for allegedly raping a woman after holding her husband hostage on the Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus.
Dhaka’s Senior Judicial Magistrate Rabeya Begum passed the order when Mizanur Rahman, sub-inspector of Ashulia Police Station, produced them before the court with a seven-day remand prayer.
Rahman, also the investigating officer of the case, urged the magistrate to allow the interrogators to question them in custody for their alleged crime on the university campus.
Those who were remanded identified as Mostafizur Rahman, International Affairs secretary of JU unit BCL, Sabbir Hasan Sagar, Sagar Siddique and Hasanuzzaman. Police arrested four among six people accused in the case.
Earlier on Friday, a resident of Ashulia was gang raped on the campus after keeping her husband confined at No 317 room of Mir Mosharraf Residential Hall.
A case was filed against six people with Ashulia Police Station.
The key suspect Mostafizur Rahman was arrested on Sunday after the incident took place on Saturday night.
According to the case statement, the woman said that one accused named Mamun used to rent a room in their house and had prior acquaintance with Mostafizur. Mamun occasionally stayed with Mostafizur in Mir Mosharraf Hossain Hall.
Mamun had invited her husband to visit the university under the pretext of purchasing furniture.
On the evening of the incident, the woman’s husband informed Mamun about their plan to buy furniture.
Mamun then instructed the husband to call his wife to the university, suggesting that she brings some clothes for Mamun as he would be staying on campus for a few days.
Subsequently, Mostafizur and Mamun confined the woman’s husband in room 317 of the ‘A’ block of Mir Mosharraf Hossain Hall.
When the woman arrived with the clothes, Mamun took them and later deceived her into going to the forested area near the hall under the pretext of meeting her husband from another gate, where she alleges both men raped her.
Later, police arrested four people including the BCL leader in this connection
Meanwhile, teachers and students of the university formed a human chain demanding punishment of those involved in the rape.
Superintendent of Police Abdullahil Kafi confirmed the arrest of the accused at a press conference on Sunday.
