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POST TIME: 13 June, 2017 00:00 00 AM
BANANI RAPE CASE
Court to take charges into cognisance June 19
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Court to take charges into cognisance June 19

The Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 yesterday fixed June 19 to take the charges against five accused, including Shafat and Sadman, into cognisance in a case filed over the rape of two private university girls in a Banani hotel, reports UNB. Tribunal Judge Shafiul Azam also ordered for producing all the accused before the court on June 19. Earlier, on Sunday the case was transferred to the tribunal from Metropolitan Magistrate Court of Delwar Hossain. On Thursday, police pressed charges against all the five accused-- Shafat Ahmed, Nayem Ashraf, Sadman Sakif, Shafat's driver Billal Hossain and his bodyguard Rahmat Ali -- in the case. The two university girls were raped at the Raintree Dhaka hotel in Banani of the capital on March 28 last. One of the rape victims filed a case with Banani Police Station on May 6 accusing the five people.