Rubel admits to raping Garo girl

Rafsan Hossain alias Rubel confessed before a magistrate yesterday to raping a Garo girl in the capital's Uttar Badda last month.

He made the confessional statement willfully, a court official said.  

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The detailed account of Rubel could not be known immediately. 

The 18-year-old indigenous girl was raped on October 25 after she went to visit her fiancé at his lodging in Uttar Badda.

Metropolitan Magistrate Sadbir Yasir Ahsan Chowdhury recorded the statement of Rubel after Sub-Inspector BM Mamun of Badda Police Station produced the arrestee in his chamber.

In the forwarding report, Mamun, investigation officer of the case filed by the victim, said Rubel admitted his guilt during his interrogation in police custody and agreed to give a confessional statement before a magistrate.

After recording his statement, the court sent him to jail.

According to the Rapid Action Battalion, local thug Rubel and his associates were called in by a resident of the lodging to "settle the matter" after its manager raised objection to a female visitor's entering the all-male housing.

Rubel and his gang and the lodging resident threatened the couple with death and snatched a cell phone and cash from the young woman's fiancé.

At one stage, Rubel took the girl to a nearby garage by force. Later, he raped her in an abandoned house, Rab sources said.

Rubel, 30, was arrested on November 11 near the Airport Railway Station. But he escaped from police custody two days later after he was taken to court for recording his confessional statement.   

Following the incident, two policemen, Sub-inspector Emran Ul Hasan and constable Dipak Chandra Poddar who escorted Rubel to the Dhaka court were suspended.     

Law enforcers re-captured Rubel on November 15 in the capital's Badda as he was about to board a bus to leave the city.