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(Translated by Basu Bose, HRCBM)
Staff Reporter, Chittagong Bureau: Four {BNP) men terrorised a helpless (Hindu) garment factory worker in Chittaganj and took their turns in raping her. The police declined to file a charge because this (Mafia like) gang of four took shelter in the offices of the BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party} center.
On Tuesday evening the local community came forward to help and took the gang rape victim to Chittagong Medical College Hospital. At the time of writing this report, it was not known whether the female victim was admitted to the hospital.
The gang rape was committed on the hills adjacent to the entrance of the garment factory in Bayejid area of. the town The victim's mother, a Hindu, and her two young daughters live in rented rooms in the crammed quarters of Mullah Amtola Colony. Five days before the incident, the victim's mother, Sandhya Rani, had left the place to travel to her ancestral village home.
About 5 or 6 of well-known local gangsters made their entry into the residence around 7:45 PM. The victim was alone at the time and waiting for her older sister to return home from work.
The gang then lifted the young woman by force and carried her away to the nearby hills. Then followed the ghastly gang rape attacks on the woman. Once their collective mission was finished; they left her unconscious on the hills.
When the older sister returned home and could not find her sister there, she frantically asked for local help to organize a search party. After a desperate search, the victim was found lying unconscious on the hills After rescuing her, they gave her some medicines bought from the local pharmacy.
According to the rape victim's statement, the four-gang rapists identified were Mintu, Shahid, Bablu, and Khokan. On Tuesday morning, her older sister took her to the local Bayejit Bostami Police Station to file a report .The police officer on duty refused to take her statement and asked her and her sister to leave.
When the news of their treatment
at the police station became known to "Bangladesh Manabidhakar Basstubayan
Sanghstha" - a human rights organisation- it immediately undertook filing
a case at the court of law. Advocate Zia Habib Ahsan, local president of
the organisation, demanded immediate removal of (Bayejit Bostami) police
officer in charge for refusing to file a criminal case of such barbaric
dimension. He further stated that it is reprehensible that the police by
delaying to take her evidence and thereby affecting the strength of her
case at the law court, has effectively sided with these despicable criminals
responsible for the victim's ordeal.
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