Four held over rape attempt aboard launch
Police detained four people for allegedly trying to rape a woman aboard a launch on the Meghna river in Chandpur on Sunday night.
The arrestees are Sujan, 19, Rajjab, 19, Imran, 23, and Sabbir, 20 - all residents at the capital's Jurain area.
The woman said she and her fiancé Sohel Tanvir, 26, were travelling to Madaripur and boarded the MV Parabat-14 launch from capital's Sadarghat around 8:00pm Sunday.
As the launch was nearing Mohonpur under Chandpur district, these four men knocked on the door of the cabin the woman was in identifying themselves as “men from the law enforcement agency”.
They locked the woman inside a staff cabin and took Sohel up to the deck of the boat where they beat him up, she said.
Afterwards, they locked Sohel in their own cabin and returned to the cabin the woman was locked in where one of the men named Imran tried to rape her, she alleged.
After Sohel screamed for help, passengers rushed to the spot and caught the four. When the launch reached Chandpur terminal, the four were handed over to river police.
The river police recovered a foreign pistol and two rounds of bullets from them.
The woman said she is married to one Omar Faruk but is separated from him now, and that she and Sohel were planning to get married.
OC Mamunur Rashid of Chandpur Model Police Station confirmed the incident.
The OC said Sub-inspector Mosharaf Hossain of Chandpur River Police filed a case against the four for carrying an illegal firearm while the woman lodged another case for attempt to rape her.
The four were sent to jail through a court. The woman and Sohel were handed over to their relatives, the OC said.
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