2 charged with Garo woman rape

The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Sunday pressed charges against two people for violating an indigenous woman in a microbus in the city on May 21.
Ajmila Nasrin, ASP of Rab-1 and investigation officer of the case, submitted the chargesheet to the General Recording Officer (GRO) of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in the afternoon which will be placed before the court on August 25, a news agency report said.
The chargesheeted accused are M Ashraf Khan and Zahidul Islam alias Lavlu.
On May 28, a court placed the two youths on a 10-day remand each.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Tushar alias Ashraf and microbus driver Lavlu for their suspected link with the rape in the capital on May 27.
The law enforcers also seized the microbus used by the sex offenders, according to their statement.
The 22-year-old indigenous woman filed the gang-rape case against five unidentified miscreants with Bhatara Police Station alleging that she was raped by miscreants in a moving microbus in the city on May 22.
According to the case statement, the Garo woman was dragged into the microbus by the miscreants from Kuril Bus Stand around 9:30pm on the night of May 21 as she was waiting for transport to return home after the day's work at a showroom in the area.
Later, the miscreants threw her out of the bus at Jasimuddin Road in Uttara in the midnight when local people rescued her and took her to a local hospital.
On June 4, the two accused made their deposition before the court.
-SS