The National Human Rights Commission Bangladesh asked the Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner to submit a progress report on the investigation of the recent rape and torture of a newly married woman in Dhaka by July 28.
In a suo-moto order on Monday, the commission described the incident as a despicable and gross violation of human rights. It issued the order after being informed of the incident from a report in a Bangla daily.
According to police, a 37-year-old woman was picked up in front of the third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport while she was with her husband at about 9:30pm on Friday. She was taken to a house in the Banarupa area of Dhaka鈥檚 Khilkhet, where she was raped and tortured by four people.
A case was filed with the Khilkhet police station in connection with the incident. Later, police arrested seven suspects.
The arrested are Abul Kashem alias Sumon, 37, Partho Biswas, 20, Nur Mohammad, 20, Hasibul Hasan, 19, Robin Hossain, 28, Mir Azizul Islam, 23, and Mehedi Hasan, 22.
DMP assistant commissioner for the Cantonment Zone, Sheikh Muttajul Islam, said that they had arrested the seven suspects on Saturday, and they were sent to jail by the court on Sunday.
鈥楾he arrested had demanded Tk 3 lakh from the couple and settled for Tk 70,000. But when the husband left the scene for money, the suspects raped the woman. We did not seek a remand prayer as one of them confessed to the crime,鈥� Muttajul told 抖阴精品.
He added that the woman had a love affair with the prime accused Sumon.
鈥榃e received the news through an emergency 999 call and rescued the victims at about 4:00am on Saturday,鈥� the police official added.