UNB, Dhaka :
A court here on Sunday deferred until October 16 the start of recording depositions of witnesses against five accused, including Shafat Ahmed, in a case filed for raping two private university girls in a Banani hotel.
Acting judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 Joyasree Somaddar passed the order granting a petition filed by the state seeking time as the complainant could not appear before the court for illness, said plaintiff’s lawyer Fahmida
Akhter Rinki. The court also rejected the bail pleas of the accused, she said.
The two female private university students were raped at The Raintree Dhaka hotel at Banani in the city on March 28 last. One of the victims filed a case with Banani Police Station on May 6 over the incident.
On June 8, police pressed charges against all the accused in the case.
Of the accused, Shafat Ahmed, 26, and Nayem Ashraf, 30, were sued for raping the two female university students while Sadman Shafiq, 24, Shafat’s driver Billal, 26, and his unnamed bodyguard for abetting in the crime.
The prime accused, Shafat Ahmed, is the son of Dildar Ahmed who owns top jewellery brand “Apan Jewellers” along with three of his brothers.
A court here on Sunday deferred until October 16 the start of recording depositions of witnesses against five accused, including Shafat Ahmed, in a case filed for raping two private university girls in a Banani hotel.
Acting judge of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 Joyasree Somaddar passed the order granting a petition filed by the state seeking time as the complainant could not appear before the court for illness, said plaintiff’s lawyer Fahmida
Akhter Rinki. The court also rejected the bail pleas of the accused, she said.
The two female private university students were raped at The Raintree Dhaka hotel at Banani in the city on March 28 last. One of the victims filed a case with Banani Police Station on May 6 over the incident.
On June 8, police pressed charges against all the accused in the case.
Of the accused, Shafat Ahmed, 26, and Nayem Ashraf, 30, were sued for raping the two female university students while Sadman Shafiq, 24, Shafat’s driver Billal, 26, and his unnamed bodyguard for abetting in the crime.
The prime accused, Shafat Ahmed, is the son of Dildar Ahmed who owns top jewellery brand “Apan Jewellers” along with three of his brothers.
