A female journalist has alleged gang rape in Pallabi, Dhaka. Police have arrested two people in connection with the incident.
Pallabi Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammad Nazrul Islam stated that the victim filed a complaint on Tuesday (March 18) afternoon.
He said that on Tuesday afternoon, a female journalist filed a complaint alleging that she was gang-raped on Monday night in the 'Green City' area of Barantek in Pallabi Police Station.
Immediately after taking cognizance of the complaint, two accused named Hamidur Rahman and Enamul Haque were arrested. During initial interrogation, these two admitted to gang-raping the woman.
OC Nazrul Islam said that after the complaint, the victim was sent to the One-Stop Crisis Center (OCC) at Dhaka Medical College (DMC) Hospital. He also said that efforts are underway to arrest the others involved.
Regarding the complaint in the case, the police stated that according to the victim's complaint, she was abducted by 16 individuals from the UCB Chattar area of Pallabi on Monday night. Later, she was gang-raped. The case names eight individuals, with eight more unnamed individuals as accused.
At the hospital, the victim said that she is 50 years old and resides in the Turag area. She works for a newspaper in Dhaka. On Monday night around 11:00 PM, she went to the UCB Chattar area for an investigative report. At that time, a fraud ring of 16 people from the area forcibly dragged her into an under-construction building.
