5 held over gang rape

Staff Reporter :
Police have arrested five youths in a case of gang-rape of a woman who came to Dhaka from Jashore to meet her husband and children.
The five accused youths have been identified as Billal Hossain, 25, Al Amin Hossain, 26, Sabuj, 26, Russel alias Molla Russel, 24, and Shafiqul Islam, 26.
They were arrested from the city’s Gabtoli, Demra and Bosila areas and Bhola’s Tazumuddin upazila on Saturday night. HM Azimul Haque, the Deputy Commissioner of Tejgaon Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), confirmed the arrests at his office in a press conference on Sunday.
According to the DC, the victim woman came to Dhaka on January 25 to visit her husband. Unable to find her husband in his old house, she began searching. Around 9:30pm, she got on a rickshaw to go to Gabtoli from Basila.
Instead of taking her to the destination (Gabtoli), the rickshaw puller kept going in various directions, giving her hope of finding her husband. At the same time, he was talking to different people over phone.
Later, at around 12:30am, the rickshaw puller took her to a place in Basila Future Town. There, the rickshaw puller along with his companions intimidated the woman and took her to a temporary tin house and five people raped her alternately by threatening to kill , the DC added.