Joynal Abedin Khan :
A gang of criminals numbering three raped a sales girl of a super store in the city’s Azampur area on Thursday night.
Quoting the victim, Sentu Das, Assistant Sub-Inspector of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) Police Camp, said, the victim, aged about 17 years, works as sales girl at Rajlaxmi Market branch of the
departmental store Swapna at Uttara. She hailed from Babuganj upazila of Barisal district. On Thursday night, her fellow-worker Arif, 25, along with his two accomplices took the victim to an under-construction building near Rajlaxmi Complex and raped her there by turns between 9:00pm and 11:30 pm. Later, the victim’s brother-in-law took her to DMCH and got her admitted there around 2:30 am. The incident took place after two months of rape of a Garo saleswoman in a moving microbus, which triggered a widespread public outcry.
Meanwhile, RAB-1 members arrested Arif from the city while police arrested his cohort Babu in this connection. Assistant Deputy Commissioner Md Russell of Uttara division (DMP) said that a case had been filed with Uttara thana (West) in this connection.
Earlier, a schoolgirl was gang-raped by miscreants in the city’s Lalbagh area on July 22. Police, meanwhile, have arrested suspected rapist Saikat Islam Rana from the area. On July 13, a 23-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped in the capital’s Kadamtoli.
The victim, who had just arrived in the city a few hours before the incident, was admitted to the One-stop Crisis Center of Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the evening for forensic tests.
On June 20, a first year honours student of Dhaka City College was gang-raped allegedly by her friend and his accomplices in the capital’s Mirpur area, said Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Mirpur Model police station Md Salauddin. Another young woman was gang-raped in the city’s Rampura area on June 14. Rampura Police Station officer-in charge Mahbubur Rahman said the accused were identified as Sujan, Moin, Arif and Farhad.
Five youths hauled a Garo girl onto a microbus and raped her in Dhaka’s Kuril Biswa Road on May 22. Women facing sexual offences prefer concealing in most cases in view of political and social influence of the offenders, and a lengthy trial process, according to intelligence reports and rights activists. A senior intelligence official, preferring anonymity, told a news agency that they had recorded some 100 rape incidents in the first half of this year. But said, the actual number of incidents is much higher than the recorded ones. “In many cases, the victims do not disclose the incidents, fearing social stigma. Even sometimes, the perpetrators record the rape scenes with their cellphones and threaten to spread the video through the internet,” he said.
Sheikh Nazmul Alam, Deputy Commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said, the victims in most cases are found reluctant about cooperating with investigators.
Advocate Fahmida Akter, a case manager of Bangladesh National Women Lawyers’ Association (BNWLA), identified the lack of victim and witness protection law as the main reason behind the reluctance of the victims in cooperating with the investigators or giving depositions in the court that results in lingering the trial process.
“Sometimes, the public prosecutors cannot record deposition of witnesses in the court in due time,” she said. Prof Ayesha Mahmuda of Psychology Department of Dhaka University said, “When a culprit goes unpunished, he thinks there is nothing wrong and he gets encouraged for more sexual assaults.
According to Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, a total of 492 rapes took place in the country from January to June this year. Last year, 939 rape incidents were recorded across the country.
A gang of criminals numbering three raped a sales girl of a super store in the city’s Azampur area on Thursday night.
Quoting the victim, Sentu Das, Assistant Sub-Inspector of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) Police Camp, said, the victim, aged about 17 years, works as sales girl at Rajlaxmi Market branch of the
departmental store Swapna at Uttara. She hailed from Babuganj upazila of Barisal district. On Thursday night, her fellow-worker Arif, 25, along with his two accomplices took the victim to an under-construction building near Rajlaxmi Complex and raped her there by turns between 9:00pm and 11:30 pm. Later, the victim’s brother-in-law took her to DMCH and got her admitted there around 2:30 am. The incident took place after two months of rape of a Garo saleswoman in a moving microbus, which triggered a widespread public outcry.
Meanwhile, RAB-1 members arrested Arif from the city while police arrested his cohort Babu in this connection. Assistant Deputy Commissioner Md Russell of Uttara division (DMP) said that a case had been filed with Uttara thana (West) in this connection.
Earlier, a schoolgirl was gang-raped by miscreants in the city’s Lalbagh area on July 22. Police, meanwhile, have arrested suspected rapist Saikat Islam Rana from the area. On July 13, a 23-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped in the capital’s Kadamtoli.
The victim, who had just arrived in the city a few hours before the incident, was admitted to the One-stop Crisis Center of Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the evening for forensic tests.
On June 20, a first year honours student of Dhaka City College was gang-raped allegedly by her friend and his accomplices in the capital’s Mirpur area, said Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Mirpur Model police station Md Salauddin. Another young woman was gang-raped in the city’s Rampura area on June 14. Rampura Police Station officer-in charge Mahbubur Rahman said the accused were identified as Sujan, Moin, Arif and Farhad.
Five youths hauled a Garo girl onto a microbus and raped her in Dhaka’s Kuril Biswa Road on May 22. Women facing sexual offences prefer concealing in most cases in view of political and social influence of the offenders, and a lengthy trial process, according to intelligence reports and rights activists. A senior intelligence official, preferring anonymity, told a news agency that they had recorded some 100 rape incidents in the first half of this year. But said, the actual number of incidents is much higher than the recorded ones. “In many cases, the victims do not disclose the incidents, fearing social stigma. Even sometimes, the perpetrators record the rape scenes with their cellphones and threaten to spread the video through the internet,” he said.
Sheikh Nazmul Alam, Deputy Commissioner of the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said, the victims in most cases are found reluctant about cooperating with investigators.
Advocate Fahmida Akter, a case manager of Bangladesh National Women Lawyers’ Association (BNWLA), identified the lack of victim and witness protection law as the main reason behind the reluctance of the victims in cooperating with the investigators or giving depositions in the court that results in lingering the trial process.
“Sometimes, the public prosecutors cannot record deposition of witnesses in the court in due time,” she said. Prof Ayesha Mahmuda of Psychology Department of Dhaka University said, “When a culprit goes unpunished, he thinks there is nothing wrong and he gets encouraged for more sexual assaults.
According to Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, a total of 492 rapes took place in the country from January to June this year. Last year, 939 rape incidents were recorded across the country.
