RAPE IN BANANI HOTEL Women support centre starts investigation

The Women Support and Investigation Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Wednesday launched an investigation into the reported double-rape incident in a Banani hotel. 
Until Tuesday evening, the case was with the Banani police but it was later transferred to the DMP.
Meanwhile, the Banani police station officer-in-charge, BM Farman Ali, went on a five-day leave on Wednesday amid allegations that the police are showing apparent reluctance to catch the accused. Police, however, brushed aside the allegation.
‘We are trying to capture the perpetrators ... we are doing it from the bottom of our heart,’ the Women Support and Investigation Division’s additional deputy commissioner Asma Siddiqua Mili, also the supervisor of the investigation.
Police so far could not arrest anybody in the case lodged on May 6 in connection with a reported incident of rape of two university girls inside a hotel at Banani on March 28.
The Banani police had conducted several raids in Dhaka, its surrounding areas and in the Sylhet city to arrest the accused persons, but none was arrested.
The New Age correspondent in Sylhet had talks with the city’s metropolitan police spokesperson additional deputy commissioner, Zedan Al Musa, and he said they were not doing anything there as the investigators in Dhaka are dealing with the matter.
One of the victims lodged the case with the Banani police accusing Shafat Ahmed and Nayem Ashraf of raping her and her friend while Shafat’s driver Billal ‍and bodyguard Abul Kalam Azad and another young man Sadman Shafiq of assisting the suspected rapists.
Police meanwhile came to know that Nayem Ashraf was basically Abdul Halim of Sirajganj. 
Meanwhile, people went on demonstration against recent rape incidents, including the Banani rape case. A human chain was formed and a protest rally was held at Shahbagh in Dhaka demanding justice and immediate arrest of the perpetrators.
According to the complaints, the rapes were committed in separate rooms at the Rain Tree Hotel at Banani on March 28. 
Victims said police received the complaint on Saturday after they had approached them on Friday. 
They accused five people of rape, criminal intimidation, voluntarily causing hurt, and of assisting rape. 

 

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