Banani rape: Charge-framing hearing deferred

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UNB, Dhaka :
A court here on Sunday postponed the date of charge-framing and set on July 13 against the five accused, including Shafat Ahmed, in connection to Banani rape case.
The judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 Shafiul Azam passed the order as Nayem Ashraf’s lawyer sought time to prepare for the case proceedings.
Earlier on June 19, the court took into cognisance the charges against the accused and fixed July 9 to
start the hearing on the charge-framing in the case.
Of them, Shafat and Nayem Ashraf were charged for rape while Shadman Sakif, Shafat’s driver Billal Hossain and bodyguard Rahmat Ali for assisting in the offence.
On June 8, police pressed charges against the accused in the case.
Earlier on June 11, the case filed over the rape of two university studentsin a Banani hotel was transferred to the tribunal from the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Delwar Hossain.
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