DU student raped, tortured in capital

A second-year student of Dhaka University was allegedly raped and tortured in the capital’s Kurmitola area last night.

Her fellow students and several DU employees brought her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital around midnight and got her admitted there, police said.

Some of her friends who rescued her told The Daily Star that she was walking from Kurmitola bus stop to a friend’s house in a nearby area around 7:30pm.

Soon after getting down from the university bus, someone grabbed her from behind, gagged her and took her to an isolated place nearby. She was raped and tortured there, they said, quoting the victim.

Assistant Sub-inspector Abdul Kahan of DMCH police outpost said the 21-year-old woman, who appeared to be traumatised and disoriented at the hospital, told her fellow students that she fainted at the time and regained consciousness after 10:00pm.

She then called her friends who rescued her and brought her to the DMCH, he said.

As she was taken inside the hospital, she told her friends that she felt severe pain in her left leg, according to her fellow students.

Kazi Shahan, officer-in-charge of Cantonment Police Station, said that police were investigating the incident.