A Dhaka metropolitan court on Tuesday approved a police request to remand two of the accused in the Banani rape case. The two – Billal Hossain and Rahmat Ali – acted as the driver and bodyguard of Shafat Ahmed, accused of raping two women at Banani’s Raintree Hotel in March. Also Read- Banani rape: Driver claims to have deleted videoIn the remand prayer, the IO said that they wanted a 10-day remand to interrogate the suspects thoroughly and to increase chances of recovering the video of the rape that had allegedly been captured by Billal. Earlier, driver Billal and bodyguard Rahmat, who are said to have assisted the double rape at Raintree hotel in the capital’s Banani on March 28, were arrested on Monday night. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Billal raiding a hotel in Wari’s Nawabpur area around 6:00pm while Detective Branch of the DMP police arrested Rahmat in Gulshan-1 around an hour later.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 16, 2017 10:00 UTC