GRP inspector sent to jail for raping woman in police station

The Khulna Khulna Metropolitan Sessions Court has sent a former inspector of Government Railway Police to jail after his surrender before the court in a case filed for violating a woman at GRP police station in 2019.

Judge Mahmuda Khatun of the passed the order after fugitive accused Osman Gani Pathan surrendered before the court and sought bail on Sunday.

According to the case, when the woman was travelling to Jashore by a train and a female police officer and two other policemen detained her along with her daughter and took them to Khulna GRP station on August 8, 2019.

Later, the woman was raped at the police station by Khulna GRP police inspector Osman Gani Pathan, the case statement said.

On August 9, the woman lodged a complaint at GRP Police Station against inspector Osman Gani Pathan and four others.  Osman Gani went into hiding after the incident.

On January 16, 2020, police submitted a charge sheet accusing Osman Gani before the court. However, other police officers were excluded from the charge sheet.

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