Bogra rape: Demand for justice gets stronger

Bangladesh Nari Mukti Sangsad formed a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club on Tuesday demanding exemplary punishment to rapists of girl and her mother in Bogra.
Bangladesh Nari Mukti Sangsad formed a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club on Tuesday demanding exemplary punishment to rapists of girl and her mother in Bogra.
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UNB, Bogra :
Hundreds of people in the district town staged demonstrations on Tuesday demanding punishment of Sramik League leader Tufan Sarkar and his associates in connection with the rape of a girl and assault on the rape victim and her mother.
Different socio-cultural organisations gathered at the Zero point of the city in the morning to protest the inhuman and barbaric torture on the rape victim and her mother.
They also demanded identification of ‘godfathers’ of Tufan and their trial.
However, different social and civil society organisations formed human chains in different upazilas of the district on the same demand.
Bogra district BNP held a protest rally demanding exemplary punishment of the all arrested culprits involved in the incident
On July 17, Tufan took the girl to his house at Badurtala in the district town promising to arrange her admission into a local college and raped her there
When Tufan’s wife Asha and her elder sister Marzia Hasan Rumki, a councilor of Bogra municipality, came to know the incident, they along with some associates picked up the girl and her mother from their house.
They allegedly beat the girl and her mother with sticks and got cut down the hair of their heads. At one stage, the offenders got their heads shaved done by a barber.
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