Three held over rape in Jamalpur

Three people were arrested on charges of raping a woman after tying up and assaulting her husband in Jamalpur’s Sadar upazila.

The arrests were made after the woman filed a case against five people with Jamalpur Sadar Police Station on Tuesday.

The accused are Farhad Mia, 30, and Azam, 24, of Chander Haora village; Rahat Ali Roudro, 24, Suman alias Pacha, 24; and Palash.

Among them, police on Wednesday arrested Farhad, Azam and Rahat and produced them before the local court, which sent them to jail, Officer-in-Charge of Jamalpur Sadar Police Station Mizanur Rahman said yesterday.

According to the case statement, the incident occurred on January 1 at Mesta Union in Sadar upazila. 

Rahat Ali called the victim’s husband, a day labourer, out of his house in the evening on the pretext of offering him work. Sensing something suspicious, the woman followed them and reached the bank of the Jhinai River in Chander Haora area, where she saw five men tying her husband with a towel and beating him.

When she tried to intervene, Farhad and Azam allegedly restrained her and took her to a nearby maize field, where they raped her.

Later, Rahat Ali and Suman also raped her, the complaint said.

OC Mizan said efforts are ongoing to arrest the remaining accused.