Judge Kamrunnahar of Dhaka’s Seventh Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal, passed the verdict in the much-publicised on Thursday. According to the case filed by the victim’s father, Mojnu dragged the Dhaka University student into a roadside bush near the golf club at Kurmitola on Jan 5 evening and raped her there when she mistakenly got off a bus while going to a friend’s house. Amid protests on the campus and elsewhere, the Rapid Action Battalion arrested him three days later by tracking the mobile phone he stole from the victim. Mojnu, a 30-year-old street hawker, is also accused of raping beggars and mugging unsuspecting pedestrians. He gave a confessional statement to the court in the case on Jan 16 and the Detective Branch of police charged him in court on Mar 16.

Source: bd News24 November 19, 2020 09:33 UTC