Charges pressed against four for raping Garo girl
UNB
Police on Wednesday pressed charges against four young men, including prime accused Rafsan Hossain Rubel, in a case filed for gang raping a Garo girl in the capitals Badda area last year, reports UNB.
Mohammad Shahinur Rahman, sub-inspector of Badda Police Station, submitted a charge-sheet against them before the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate.
The other charge-sheeted accused are Salauddin Miah, Alauddin and Imran Khan.
Of the accused, Rubel is behind the bars while Salauddin is out on bail and the two others have been on the run.
The Garo girl, a resident of Khilkhet area in the capital who used to work at a beauty parlour, was gang raped at Uttar Badda in the city on October 26 last year by the four youths while returning home from her workplace.
Later, she filed a case with the Badda Police Station on October 28.
Rab members arrested Rubel from the Airport Railway Station area of the capital on November 11 last.
On November 20 last year, Rubel confessed to his involvement before a Dhaka magistrate with the raping of the Garo girl.
A court official then said, Rubel was directly involved with the raping and he gave his confessional statement willingly.
Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury recorded the statement of Rubel after Sub-Inspector BM Mamun of Badda police, also the investigation officer of the case, produced him at the magistrates chamber for recording his confessional statement.
In the forwarding report, the IO said during a six-day remand Rubel admitted to his guilt and agreed to give a willful confessional statement.
