4 held over rape of a woman in-front of tied up husband in Khulna

The UNB photo shows members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested four people in Khulna. – UNB photo

Members of Rapid Action Battalion have arrested four people in connection with the rape of a woman in Khulna city on Wednesday night.

The arrestees are auto-rickshaw drivers Belal Morol and Azizur Rahman Mithu, bakery worker Jihad Munshi and a student Md Rasel.

The couple was returning to their Phulbari Gate home from Bypass area in the city at about 8:00pm.

The accused ridding on two motorbikes obstructed the couple searched them introducing them as officials of administration.

The alleged rapists videoed them the whole thing and threatened them not to disclose this.

RAB-6 senior assistant superintendent Pahan Chakma said that they came to know the incident from their sources and asked the couple to come further to Khulna Medical College Hospital where they disclosed the incident.

‘The victim is now undergoing treatment at One-stop Crisis Center of the KMCH,’ he said