Two sued, two sent to jail in rape cases

A case has been filed against two youths over gang-rape of a teenage girl in Noakhali, while two persons were sent to jail yesterday over separate rape incidents in Dinajpur.

The accused in the Noakhali incident are Abu Darda Bappi (25), resident of Basurhat municipality, and his friend Hridoy (28) from Kabihat municipality.

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On June 16, Bappi, who proposed to the victim to marry him, took her to his rented house at Basurhat to discuss their marriage, where Hridoy and Bappi raped her.

They released the victim after threatening her not to disclose the incident, said police.

The victim shared the incident with her family members. On Tuesday night, the victim's mother filed a case against the two, who are currently on the run, said Md Sadequr Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Companyganj Police Station.

The victim has been sent to a hospital and police were conducting raids to arrest the accused, the OC added. Her family alleged that some local influential people were pressurising them to go for a settlement.

Meanwhile in Dinajpur, a court sent two persons to jail over two separate rape incidents at Ghoraghat upazila yesterday.

Ghoraghat Police said accused Ful Miah (57) raped his neighbour, a speech-impaired teenage girl, on Tuesday afternoon when the victim was alone at her home.

When her parents returned home in the evening, she shared the incident with them. Later at night, the victim's father filed a rape case against Ful Miah with Ghoraghat Police Station.

Police arrested Ful Miah from Nurjahanpur village in the same upazila, said OC Mominul Islam.

Ful Miah was produced before the court yesterday, which sent him to jail.

The court sent another man to jail on charge of raping a homemaker around one and a half months ago.

The accused is Golbahar Sheikh (58), resident of Satpara in the same upazila.

In the first week of May, he raped a homemaker, who was his neighbour. On May 9, the victim's husband filed a rape case with Ghoraghat Police Station against Golbahar, who went into hiding.

Police arrested him on Tuesday and produced him before the court that sent him to jail.