Court Correspondent :
The lone suspect in the case over raping a Dhaka University student in the capital’s Kurmitola yesterday gave his confessional statement in a Dhaka court.
Metropolitan Magistrate Tofazzel Hossain recorded the statement of the accused, Majnu, on Thursday after police produced him on completion of a 7-day remand. Later, the court sent him to the jail.
On January 9, a Dhaka court put Majnu on a seven-day remand two days after he was arrested from the capital’s Shewra level crossing at Kurmitola near the crime scene.
According to the case filed by the victim’s father, the second-year DU student was being followed by the suspect after she got off from the university’s bus at Kurmitola stoppage. He then dragged her into a bush in a nearby secluded place and raped her sometime between 7 and 8 pm. The accused also took away the victim’s mobile phone, wrist-watch, a bag and Tk 2,000 in cash, according to the case details.
After she regained consciousness at 10 pm, she visited her friend’s house by auto-rickshaw and told her about the incident. Hearing it, her classmates arrived and took her to the university hall. She was admitted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital after midnight.
