CNG autorickshaw driver raped DU student: RAB

Crime

TBS Report
08 January, 2020, 11:20 am
Last modified: 08 January, 2020, 02:42 pm
The driver, named Monju, has been arrested from Gazipur's Tongi area
  • The second-year student of Dhaka University was raped on Sunday evening
  • Doctors at DMCH have found evidence of rape after primary test of the victim
  • RAB detains a CNG driver, 2 others over DU student rape 

 The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has said driver of a CNG-run Autorickshaw raped the Dhaka University student at capital's Kurmitola area on Sunday evening.

"The driver, named Mojnu, 30, has been arrested from Gazipur's Tongi area on Tuesday afternoon," said Mizanur Rahman, senior assistant director of RAB Legal and Media wing confirmed the matter to The Business Standard.

The victim, a second-year student of Dhaka University, was picked up by the rapist after she got down from the bus in Kurmitola area in the capital on Sunday (January 5) evening and then was taken to a secret place nearby, where she was raped and tortured.

Later, she made it to her friend's house by herself when she regained sense at midnight. Then her friends took her to Dhaka University campus and admitted her at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the early hours of Monday (January 6).

The doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital have found evidence of rape after primary test of the victim.

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