A young woman has allegedly been gang-raped while returning home to Habiganj for her marriage from Dhaka, where she worked as a domestic help.
The alleged rapist is a drug addict and used to live on the street
The number of rape incidents increases significantly in September compared to the previous month, a report of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad says.
The husband of the Jashore woman, who was raped allegedly by a police officer and his informant, was planning to open a shop with Tk 1.5 lakh the family arranged by selling a piece of land.
A mother of two has been raped by a youth in Nandail upazila of Mymensingh, police says quoting the victim. The 28-year-old victim, a divorcee who works as a housemaid, was promised marriage by owner of a tailor shop Shamim Mia, reports our Mymensingh correspondent.
Two housewives and a third grader were allegedly raped in Patuakhali, Mymensingh and Panchagarh on Wednesday.
Police have detained a youth on charge of raping a three-year-old girl in Bagerhat’s Fakirhat upazila.
A ninth-grader attempted to die by suicide allegedly after being raped several times and publicly beaten up by the rapist in Mymensingh’s Gafargaon on Thursday.
Two girls, including an autistic teenager, were allegedly raped in Bandarban and Narayanganj on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Two incidents of rape reported by this paper on Wednesday, while tragic and shocking, brought out a stark reality about the culture of rape and how sometimes, the role of the local community leaders in patching up the matter instead of handing the perpetrators to the police sustain the crime rather than prevent it. The incidents occurred in Narayanganj and Noakhali respectively.
The Banani rape case that took place in March this year is yet another example of how our faulty system tends to work in favour of the criminal. The media's exposure of these crimes helped the protesters gain some ground. But one wonders why things have to move this way.
