Prime accused of Savar ‘gang-rape’ arrested

The police arrested the prime accused in a case filed over the alleged gang-rape of two girls from Manikganj district on Tuesday.

Tipped off, a team of Savar police station with the help of Manikganj police launched a raid in Charkhalshi area of Daulatpur upazila in the afternoon and arrested Liton Mondal, a former source of police.

The police earlier arrested two other accused in the case.

On 6 July, Liton called the two girls over phone in Savar from Gazipur promising to give them opportunity of modelling and he along with his associates confined them to a room on the first floor of a six-storey building in Sobhanbagh in Savar municipality and raped them in turns.

Hearing screams of the victims, locals and a team of Detective Branch (DB) of police rushed in and rescued the two girls on 7 July morning.

Source: Prothom Alo