Police officer being probed over rape in Chattogram
A sub-inspector of Bayezid Police Station allegedly raped a housewife threatening to implicate her husband in a yaba case.
She was undergoing treatment at a private hospital as she attempted to take her own life after having liquid toilet cleaner 11 days ago.
After the incident, the 35-year-old woman's husband, a tailor by profession, filed a complaint against SI Yaar Hossain with Deputy Commissioner (north) Bijoy Basak of Chattogram Metropolitan Police.
Bijoy told The Daily Star that they received a complaint three days ago and Additional Deputy Commissioner (north) Mizanur Rahman had been tasked with investigating the incident.
Mizan said he recorded the SI's version and asked the victim's husband to give his statement.
According to the allegation, an uncle of the police official introduced him to the husband in Dhaka. At that time, Yaar was posted in Dhaka and he had been transferred to Chattogram a few days later. The SI offered the husband to manage a tailoring shop in Chattogram city and requested him to come there from Dhaka.
As per the request, the tailor along with his wife moved to the city on September 15 and rented a house in Karnaphuli area.
The complainant said Yaar went to his house a couple of days later and requested him to allow the SI to reside in the house for a few days until he could rent one.
On October 18, the SI requested the housewife to help him as he fell sick and asked her to come to his room. Threatening to implicate her husband in a yaba case, the SI “raped” her when she went to his room around midnight. During the incident, her husband was asleep, the complaint read.
After the incident, the wife did not disclose the matter to her husband and the SI “raped” her again a few days later.
The husband told The Daily Star that he rebuked his wife after the incident. But she told him that the SI forced her to do so, saying that he would be implicated in a yaba case.
“After being scolded by me, she took toilet cleaner to commit suicide,” said the husband.
Contacted, SI Yaar brushed aside the allegation, saying that both the husband and wife were “fraudsters”.
“They [husband and wife] are harassing me to realise money from me. I have all the documents which can prove the allegation against me to be false and baseless,” the SI said.
However, the SI admitted that he knew the complainant since he was working in Dhaka.
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