Housewife Riding Auto-Rickshaw Becomes Latest Victim of Rape Spree

Local Correspondent

A housewife has become the latest victim in what seems like a nationwide rape spree. Incidents of single and gang rapes, followed by physical assault or murder, and bodies being dumped in fields, wetlands, or jungles, or even rapes occurring on moving buses, have been reported. In this ongoing trend, a housewife has now fallen victim.

In Sirajdikhan, Munshiganj, a 29-year-old garment worker was gang-raped after being taken off an auto-rickshaw.

Following the filing of a case at the police station, the main accused was arrested on the night of Friday, February 21. During initial interrogation, the arrested suspect confessed to the crime.

Sirajdikhan Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mizanul Haque stated that the victim is a garment worker from Fatulla in Narayanganj. On the evening of February 6, after finishing work, she was returning home to her husband in Baluchar, Munshiganj, by auto-rickshaw.

Upon reaching the DC Project area in Baluchar, the accused, Md. Rahim (32) and Md. Arif Sarkar (30), stopped the auto-rickshaw, threatened her with sharp weapons, and took her to a bush near the Dhaleshwari River, where they gang-raped her.

The OC further mentioned that on February 21, the victim filed a case at Sirajdikhan Police Station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, naming five individuals. Later that night, police conducted a raid and arrested the main accused, Nurul Islam Nuru. He is the son of Osman Goni from Char Chasuddin village in Baluchar Union.

The investigating officer, Police Inspector Habibur Rahman, said that the arrested suspect was produced in court in the afternoon. Efforts to arrest the remaining accused are ongoing.