Court Correspondent :
The Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 on Monday took cognizance of the charge-sheet against five persons in the case filed over rape of two private university students at a Banani hotel.
Judge Md Shafiul Azam of the court accepted the charge-sheet and fixed July 9 for hearing in the case.
Earlier on June 7, Ismat Ara Ame, Inspector of Women Support and Investigation Centre of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, submitted the charge-sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court.
The five accused are Ahmed Shafat, son of the owner of Apan Jewellers, his friend Nayeem Ashraf, Sadman Sakif, Shafat’s driver Billal Hossain and his bodyguard Rahmat Ali. All of them are behind the bar. Of the accused Shafat, Nayem, Sakif and Billal confessed to their involvement in the incident before different magistrate courts on different dates.
The two university girls were raped at the Raintree Dhaka hotel of Banani in the capital on March 28.
One of the rape victims filed a case with Banani Police Station on May 6 accusing the five persons.
