A group of men raped a woman after abducting her from a railway station in Sirajganj where she was waiting to catch a train to visit her parental home, police said on Wednesday.
Police said they launched a hunt for the alleged rapists after the woman’s husband filed a case with Ullapara police station naming about 12 unidentified men.
According to the husband, he along with his wife arrived at Salpa railway station under Ullapara upazila on Sunday afternoon to take a train to go to his father-in-law’s home.
He asked his wife to wait at a tea stall next to the station and went to pay the fare of the van driver who brought them there. On return he found his wife missing only to be found the next morning.
Deepak Kumar Das, officer-in-charge of the police station, said some local people on Monday morning reported to the husband that they saw a woman lying sick at a mango orchard in neighbouring Betkandi village, about half a kilometre away from the railway station.
Being informed, police rescued the rape survivor and admitted her to the hospital.
After recovery, she said some people tactfully made her faint before she found herself in the lonely orchard at night. There the men raped her throughout the night before leaving her in a bad shape.
On Tuesday afternoon, the rape survivor's husband filed a case with the Ullapara police station against 10 to 12 unidentified persons.
Sirajganj Assistant Superintendent of Police Mahfuz Hossain (Ullapara circle) said they are conducting drives to arrest the perpetrators.
