DB ASI remanded in Rangpur school girl gang-rape case
Raihanul was suspended on 26 October after the victim's father Aynal filed a rape case against him on 25 October night.
A Rangpur court on Wednesday placed prime accused Raihanul Islam, assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Detective Branch of Rangpur Metropolitan Police, on five-day remand for allegedly gang-raping a ninth-grader.
Judicial Magistrate Snigdha Rana of Haragachh Cognizance Court passed the order after Sub-Inspector (SI) Saiful Islam of Police Investigation Bureau (PBI) produced him before the court seeking seven-day remand.
The court also placed two others accused Sumaiya Parvin Meghna and Shampa Begum on three-day remand in connection with the incident.
Raihanul was suspended on 26 October after the victim's father Aynal filed a rape case against him on 25 October night.
According to the victim's family and locals, ASI Raihanul lured the girl on the pretext of love affair to a house in Kadarerpul area of Haragachh upazila on 25 October morning.
There Raihanul raped the girl and later some of his accomplices gang-raped her.
Earlier on 27 October, PBI arrested accused Babul Hossain and Abul Kalam Azad in connection with the gang-rape.
Both confessed to their crime.
So far, five people have been arrested in the gang-rape case.
Besides, the two women arrested to assist the accused in the rape incident were produced before the court on Sunday evening.
Later, the court ordered sent them jail.
