Staff Reporter :
A policewoman was gang-raped allegedly by her ex-husband and his four accomplices at a house in the city’s Khilgaon Tilpapara area on Thursday night.
The victim, identified as a ‘woman constable’, has been posted at Turag Police Station under Dhaka Metropolitan Police [DMP].
The news broke out in the media when the woman was admitted to One-stop Crisis Centre [OCC] at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital [DMCH] for medical test at 2:00pm on Saturday.
Inspector Mozammel Haque, In-Charge of DMCH Police Camp, said the 24-year-old woman police constable was gang-raped in a house at 86/3, Tilpapara area under Khilgaon Police Station on Thursday night
The victim claimed that her former husband Kalimur Rahman, also the former Assistant Sub-Inspector [ASI] of Khilgaon Police Station and presently working in the Special Security and Protection Battalion called her at a house and raped her along with his friends. Additional Deputy Commissioner [Media] of DMP Jahangir Alam Sarkar said, “The victim told us that her former husband ASI Kalimur Rahman and four others, whom she could not identify, gang-raped her at a house at Khilgaon Tilpapara on that night.”
Dr Bilkis Begum, Coordinator of the OCC said, “The victim’s medical examination was conducted on Saturday by the doctors. Forensic test will be conducted on Sunday.”
Quoting the victim, Dr Bilkis Begum said she [policewoman] and her former husband ASI Kalimur Rahman got divorced a year back following a family feud. They had a daughter. She filed a case against Kalimur after the divorce.
The victim said that she was admitted to Rajarbagh Police Lines Hospital on June 10 [Wednesday] for her gynaecological problem. From there her ex-husband tactfully took her to a house in Khilgaon area where Kalimur and his friends raped her overnight.
The policewoman lodged a complaint with Khilgaon Police Station on Saturday.
Her elder sister told the newsmen that the victim came out of the house with the help of house owner late Thursday night and informed the matter to the family members. She spent one day in indecision. Finally, she took admission to DMCH on Saturday.
