A Dhaka court has ordered to send Saiful Islam, joint convener of the Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Odhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad’s (Bangladesh Students’ Rights Council), and Mohammad Nazmul Huda, vice-president of Dhaka University (DU) branch of the council to jail in a case over rape and collaborating the rape of a Dhaka University (DU) student.
The accused were produced before the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court today after a two-day remand.
Rejecting their bail petition on Thursday, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasin Ahsan Chowdhury directed to send them to jail.
Earlier on October 12, the two accused were remanded for two days each over allegedly raping the DU student in the case filed on September 20.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Morshed Al Mamun Bhuiyan granted the remand after DB Inspector Wahiduzzaman produced them before the court and sought seven days to interrogate the suspects.
Former Ducsu vice-president Nurul Haque Nur, Hasan, Nazmul Hasan Sohag and Saiful – joint conveners of the Parishad, its Vice-President Nazmul and DU student Abdullah Hil Baki were accused in the rape case filed with Lalbagh police station.
Another case was filed with Kotwali police against the six on Sept 21 under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act by the same student.
On October 8, the DU student started a fast-unto-death demanding arrest of Nur and five others in the rape case.
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