A case was filed in connection with the sexual harassment of a college girl during Awami League (AL) rally at Bangla Motor intersection on Wednesday.
The victim’s father filed the case with Ramna Police Station on Thursday, said Shafiq, Inspector (Operation) of the police station.
The father of the college girl who was sexually assaulted at Bangla Motor in
Dhaka on March 7 started a case against unidentified people under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, he said.
The case accuses 15-20 unidentified people, said Ramna Police Station OC Mainul Islam. “Police are trying to identify the perpetrators from video footage. No-one has been identified yet.”
Police have recorded a statement of the student, according to the OC.
Earlier, a number of the processionists molested the college girl near the Bangla Motor intersection while they were on the way to join an Awami League rally at Suhrawardy Uddyan. Others captured videos of the incident on their mobile phones, the police official said quoting case statement.
The victim later posted a status on her Facebook account, describing the trauma she underwent.
The victim alleged that she was attacked by a group of rowdy men on their way to a public rally organised by the ruling Awami League at the Suhrawardy Uddyan on March 7.
The rally marked the historic speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1971.
