Ctg cops' mishandling prompts PBI to take over rape case

CHITTAGONG, Dec 26 (UNB): The case filed over the rapes of four women during robbery in a house under Karnaphuli police station in the district was shifted to Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on Tuesday.

Karnaphuli police handed over all the probe documents of the case to PBI this morning, said Chittagong Additional Superintendent of Police Mainuddin.

Shifting of the case to PBI takes place after the Chittagong police authority's admission on Monday that they had some failures in taking prompt action over the rapes of four women.

Earlier on December 12, a gang of robbers allegedly raped four women after committing robbery in a house at Karnafuli in the port city.

On December 13, police sent victims' family members to Patia Police Station when they went to Karnafuli Police Station to file a case, and Patia police again sent them back to Karnafuli police.

There was no mention of the rape incident in the first complain registered with the police station.

After seven days, with the interference of State Minister for Land Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, police finally took the case and arrested three persons-Md Suman alias Babu, 23, of Shah Mirpur village, Md Ismail Faruki, 25 of Shikalbaha village of Patia upazila and Bappi, 23, in this connection.