A woman, aged around 30, was allegedly gang-raped in Dagarmora area of Savar, on the outskirt of Dhaka yesterday.

Police arrested construction workers Arif, 22, Aminul, 35, Badal, 22, Alomgir, 22, and Kabir, 26 by carrying out raids in the area today for their alleged involvement with the incident, AFM Sayeed, officer-in-charge of Savar Police Station, told out Savar correspondent.

The victim told The Daily Star that a group of five people took her near an under-construction building in Dabarmora area from Savar bus stand yesterday morning in the name of giving her work and later they gang-raped her.

The victim will be sent to One-Stop Crises Center (OCC) of Dhaka Medical College Hospital for medical test, the OC said.

Filing of a case in this connection is under process, the police official added.

Police today arrested a former Chhatra League leader for his alleged involvement with a gang rape of a housewife at remote Char Piyal in Manpura upazila of Bhola district.

The arrestee Nazrul Islam, 30, was the former president of Dakkhin Sakuchia Union unit of Chhatra League.

Sakhawat Hossain, officer-in-charge of Manpura Police Station, confirmed the arrest around 12:15am and said Nazrul was arrested while he was fleeing to Hatiya and seized a speedboat.

The victim was sent to Bhola Sadar Hospital for medical test, the OC added.

A case was filed against six people on Sunday over the reported gang rape. Police said they are trying to arrest the other suspects.

The victim said she and her son, aged two and a half years, were returning home in Manpura from her parents' place at Dakkhin Aicha village in Charfasson upazila by a speedboat on Saturday. There were two other passengers on the boat.

Two more passengers got on from Janatar Khalerpar around 12:30pm, she said.

All four passengers - Belal Bepary, 35, M Rased Palowan, 25, Shahin Khan, 22, and Kiron, 26, of Rahmanpur village of the upazila - forcibly took the speedboat to Char Piyal and raped her there.

Speedboat owner Nazrul went to Char Piyal by boat and beat the four rapists.

He allowed them to go after taking Tk 3,000 from them and later raped the housewife and captured the incident on his phone.

Nazrul gave her Tk 1,000 and threatened to circulate the video if she disclosed the matter to anyone.

Finally, locals rescued the victim and took her to Manpura Police Station, said OC Sakhawat.

Three more accused have been arrested in connection with the latest “gang rape” incident of a mother of six in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila on Sunday.

The arrestees were identified as Arman, Ramnobel and Raihan, our local correspondent reports quoting Dipak Jyoti Khisha, additional superintendent of police in Noakhali.

With the latest, so far five accused of the case have been arrested.

Meanwhile, police sought seven-day remand for two of the accused who were held earlier. Judge Masfiqul Haque of Noakhali Cognisance Court-2 ordered that the accused Abul Basher and Yousuf Majhi to be sent to jail and the court will hold hearing on the remand plea on Wednesday.

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Elsewhere, the medical tests of the victim, aged about 48, have been completed, said Syed Mohiuddin Abdul Azim, resident medical officer of Noakhali General Hospital.

But the preparation of the final report may take some time, he added.

A mother of six, aged about 48, was allegedly gang-raped in Noakhali's Subarnachar upazila on Sunday evening over “campaigning for an upazila vice chairman candidate”.

The incident happened barely three months after a mother of four was gang-raped by 10-12 people in the same area allegedly for voting for “sheaf of paddy” in the December 30 national election.

Police arrested two people on Sunday after the victim's husband had filed a case with Char Jabbar Police Station, accusing 12 people, including four unnamed. The arrestees are Abul Basher and Yousuf Majhi, both accused in the case.

Law enforcers today claimed to have arrested two accused in a case filed on charge of raping a 20-year-old ready-made garment worker in Chattogram’s Anwara upazila on Wednesday night.

The arrestees are Helal, 30, a CNG driver, and Mamun, 18, our Chattogram correspondent reports quoting Md Dulal Mahmud, officer-in-charge (OC) of Anwara Police Station.

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Police arrested the duo during separate drives in Chaturi and Bairag areas last night. They confessed to their involvement in the incident during primary investigation, the OC added.

Police are looking for two other accused in the case and also trying to track down the CNG-run autorickshaw used in the incident.

According to the case statement, the victim was returning home from her workplace at night on Wednesday with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw that already had three men in it.

The men in the auto-rickshaw abducted the girl and took her to an isolated place near Boiragi union’s China Road. Two of the men then gang-raped her.

Later, they took the girl in the auto-rickshaw and dumped her beside Chattogram-Anwara road. The criminals also called the victim’s family members and informed them about the incident, the case statement added.

The victim was rescued by her family members and rushed to Karnaphuli Upazila Health Complex. She was later shifted to Chattogram Medical College and Hospital.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today called upon the people of the country to stand against the violence spree centering the December 30 election.

"We call upon the countrymen as well as the Election Commission to bring an end to this violence," Mirza Fakhrul said at a press brief at a Cumilla restaurant, on his way to Noakhali today.

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He is going to Noakhali to visit the woman who was raped at midnight of December 31.

The BNP leader condemned the rape incident and said this is an example of the pre and post-polls violence spree all across the country.

Awami League and the country's administration turned into public enemies through stealing votes in this election yet again, he further said.

What happened in Noakhali?

A mother of four was gang-raped in Noakhali's Subarnachar area on December 31 allegedly by 10 to 12 Awami League activists.

The 35-year-old woman, who was being treated at Noakhali General Hospital with severe injuries, claimed that she was raped for voting for "sheaf of paddy", the electoral symbol of the BNP, during Sunday's national polls. 

The woman alleged the rapists were accomplices of Ruhul Amin, a former member of Char Jubilee Union Parishad. "They had repeatedly insisted that I should vote for boat [the AL's symbol] but I cast my ballot for 'sheaf of paddy'," she said.