Noakhali gang rape: main accused among 4 arrested
Law enforcers have arrested four people, including the main accused, over the incident of gang-rape and torture of a woman in Noakhali that sparked outrage after a recorded video of the incident was released on social media.
The arrestees are: main accused Badal, “Delwar Bahini” chief Delwar, Rahmat Ullah and Abdur Rahim.
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Badal from Dhaka and Delwar with weapons from Narayanganj, said Lt Col Khandakar Saiful Alam of Rab-11 today.
Meanwhile, Rahmat Ullah was arrested from Begumganj upazila, reports our Noakhali correspondent quoting Shajahan Sheikh, additional superintendent of police of Begumganj Circle.
On the other hand, Abdur Rahim was held last evening, confirmed Harunur Rashid Chowdhury, officer-in-charge of Begumganj Police Station yesterday.
The incident happened in Noahkhali’s Begumganj upazila at Joykrishnapur village of Eklashpur union on September 2.
The victim filed a case with Begumganj Police Station in this regard last night.
The Daily Star has obtained a copy of the case statement.
According to the statement, the perpetrators entered the house of the victim and beat up her husband on the night of the incident. They took him to the adjacent room and tied him up.
Later, they tortured the victim and assaulted her while filming the incident on their mobile.
At one point, locals gathered around the house hearing the victim’s cry for help. The accused then threatened to kill her if she speaks about the incident, and left.
The victim, fearing for her life, fled her house and has been living elsewhere since then.
The perpetrators however, contacted her over phone and threatened to release the recorded video of the incident on social media if she did not go back to her house and agree to their demands.
“As I did not agree to their immoral proposals, they released the video on social media on October 4,” the plaintiff said in her statement.
As the video circulated widely, police located her and questioned her about the incident, following which she filed the case against her perpetrators, the statement reads. Source: Daily Star
