A case has been filed over the alleged rape of a Dhaka University student in the capital’s Kurmitola area last night.

The victim’s father filed the case with Cantonment Police Station against an unknown person this morning, Officer-in-charge of the police station Kazi Shahan Haque told The Daily Star.

Police, Rapid Action Battalion, Detective Branch (DB) of police and other intelligence agencies have started investigation over the rape incident, the OC added.

WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY?

A second-year student of Dhaka University was allegedly raped and tortured in the capital’s Kurmitola area last night.

Her fellow students and several DU employees brought her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital around midnight and got her admitted there.

The incident happened while she was walking from Kurmitola bus stop to a friend’s house in a nearby area around 7:30pm yesterday.

Soon after getting down from the university bus, someone grabbed her from behind, gagged her and took her to an isolated place nearby. She was raped and tortured there, some of her friends said, quoting the victim.

She felt severe pain in her left leg, according to her fellow students.

Assistant Sub-inspector Abdul Kahan of DMCH police outpost yesterday said the 21-year-old woman, who appeared to be traumatised and disoriented at the hospital, told her fellow students that she fainted at the time and regained consciousness after 10:00pm.

She then called her friends who rescued her and brought her to the DMCH, he said.