A wife of a rickshaw-puller was allegedly raped after she was picked up by a group of miscreants on Saturday night in Dimla upazila of Nilphamari.

Later, victim’s father filed a case with Dimla Police Station accusing nine people, our Nilphamari correspondent reports quoting Moazzem Hossain, officer-in-charge of the police station.

In his complaint, the father said miscreants picked up his daughter, a mother of three children, from her house Saturday night and raped her after taking her to a shoal of the Teesta river.

Informed by locals, police rescued the victim from the shoal Sunday morning, the correspondent reports quoting Moazzem Hossain, officer in charge of Dimla police station.

Police also rescued the victim’s mother, who was tied up by the miscreants and left at the house, the OC said. 

“We’ve started investigation,” the official said.