Female cop gang-raped

A police constable was allegedly gang-raped by her estranged husband, also a police officer, and his cohorts in the capital's Khilgaon Wednesday night.

The 25-year-old victim yesterday told journalists that her estranged husband with three others raped her after sedating her when she went to his house to see her three-year-old daughter.

She could not say how she was sedated.

She managed to flee the house Thursday afternoon and later went to Khilgaon Police Station to file a case but the on-duty policemen said they would accept a case only after investigation, the woman said at One-Stop Crisis Centre (OCC) of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Yesterday, Khilgaon police recorded a case against the accused assistant sub-inspector. The husband was transferred to Special Security and Protection Battalion from Khilgaon Police Station on Thursday.

The cops also arrested one Rahman in this connection.

Anwar Hossain, deputy commissioner (Motijheel) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told The Daily Star that action would be taken if the policeman was found guilty.

According to OCC sources, her forensic test would be performed on her today.

After their divorce in November, the female cop lodged a dowry case against her husband with Gazipur court. Her husband got an anticipatory bail that month and received the custody of their daughter.

Our correspondent did not get any answer from the ASI, despite calling him several times.

WOMAN RAPED IN RAMPURA

Another woman was gang-raped at Palashbagh area of Rampura in the capital on Friday.

The victim along with her husband on Friday morning reached Rampura from Chittagong to visit her aunt.

When the aunt went to work around 10:00am, four men stormed the house, confined the husband to a room and raped the woman.

The victim was admitted to the OCC yesterday.

Two cases, one for rape and another for assault, were filed with Rampura Police Station in this connection yesterday, said Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge of the police station.