Mohammadpur gang-rape: 4 accused remanded again

A Dhaka court placed the four accused, including the rape survivor’s boyfriend, on a fresh two-day remand in the case of gang-rape of a young woman who was kept chained in a house in the capital’s Mohammadpur.

The accused are the rape survivor’s boyfriend Sun, Himel, Rocky, and Salma alias Jhumur.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Moinul Islam passed the remand order after the hearing in the case on Thursday (April 4).

Earlier, Sub-Inspector (SI) of Mohammadpur police station Farukul Islam, also the investigating officer of the case, produced the accused before the court with five-day remand prayer after the initial three-day remand.

The accused’s lawyers applied for bail to cancel the remand, which was opposed by the state.

After hearing both sides, the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Moinul Islam granted a two-day remand for each accused.

Sub-Inspector Uttam Kumar of the General Registration Branch of Mohammadpur police station court confirmed the information.

On April 1, the court granted a three-day remand to the four accused.

The young woman was kept chained and subjected to gang rape and physical torture for 25 days in a house in Nabinagar Housing under Mohammadpur police station.

She filed a case at Mohammadpur police station on the night of March 31 after being rescued by the police upon receiving a call to the National Emergency Service number 999 reporting her screams.