Woman gang-raped in city, two held

Wed Mar 19, 2025 03:46 AM

A woman was allegedly gang-raped in the capital’s Pallabi area on Monday night.

The victim, a reporter of an online portal, was admitted to a One-Stop Crisis Centre yesterday evening.

She filed a case with Pallabi Police Station, accusing eight named and another eight unnamed persons.

Talking to The Daily Star before her hospital admission, the victim, aged over 40, alleged that she went to UCB Chattar in the Matikata area around 11:00pm on Monday from Turag area after hearing that a woman was being sexually harassed there.

As she reached there, a group of people forcibly took her to an under- construction building of a housing project in the Barontek area. Then 15 people raped her, she alleged.

Nazrul Islam, officer-in-charge of Pallabi Police Station, said locals rescued the victim around 8:00am after hearing her screams and took her to Cantonment Police Station. The accused, however, fled by that time, he said.

Locals caught two caretakers Enamul Haque, 38, and Hamidur Rahman, 53, of the building and handed them over to Cantonment Police Station.

The cantonment police then sent the two arrestees to Pallabi police, the OC said.