Our Correspondent :
A Bogura court on Sunday granted bail to expelled Sramik League leader Tufan Sarkar in a sensational case filed for abducting and raping a female student and torturing her mother in 2017.
After hearing, Judge Fazlul Haque of the women and children’s repression prevention tribunal granted him bail, PP Naresh Mukherjee confirmed the news. According to the case filed on July 28, 2017, Tufan took the girl to his house in Badurtala of Bogra town, promising to arrange her admission to a local college and raped her there on July 17 that year.
When Tufan’s wife and her elder sister came to know about the incident, they and some associates picked up the girl and her mother from their house.
They allegedly beat the girl and her mother with sticks and cut their hair. At one stage, the offenders had a barber shave their heads.
Later, two cases were filed in this connection.
On October 10 last year, police pressed charges against 13 people – Tufan, his wife Tasmin Rahman alias Asa Sarkar, and his sister-in-law, Bogra municipality councillor Marzia Hasan Rumki, Lovely Rahman Rumi, Munna, Atiqur Rahman Atiq, Ali Ajam Depu, Emarat Alam Khan, Jitu Miah, Samiul Haque Shimul, Mehedi Hasan Rupom, Jaminur Rahman Runu, Jibon Robidas Jatin, and Anjuara Begum.
On January 22, 2019, the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal also rejected Tufan’s bail plea.
The High Court also rejected another bail petition filed by Tufan on February 28 last year.
Police arrested Tufan on July 29, 2017, in connection with the case.
