Two student leaders accused in rape cases denied bail

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Staff Reporter :
A Dhaka court on Tuesday denied bail to two student leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad, accused in two rape cases filed by a Dhaka University student with Kotwali Police Station in Dhaka.
Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions judge KM Imrul Kayes denied them from bail.
The student leaders, denied bail, are Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad
 joint convener Saiful Islam and Dhaka University unit’s vice-president Nazmul Huda.
Public prosecutor Taposh Kumar Pal confirmed it.
He said the judge denied them bail after the hearing on it on Tuesday.
Earlier after midnight on October 11, the Detective Branch arrested them from Maghbazar and Azimpur in the rape cases filed by a female student with the Lalbagh and Kotwali police stations in September.
On the following day, they were placed on a two-day remand for interrogating by the court. Following the remand was over, they were ordered to send to jail rejecting their bail pleas.
In her cases filed on September 20, the Dhaka University student accused Bangladesh Chhatra Odhikar Parishad convenor Hasan Al Mamun, Saiful, Nazmul, former Dhaka University Central Students’ Union vice-president Nurul Huque Nur, and two others of rape and intimidation.
The accused denied the allegations.
On October 8, the DU student went on a hunger strike demanding arrest of Nurul Haque Nur and the five people in connection with the rape cases.
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