No arrest yet

Police are claiming that they could neither arrest an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) nor gather information on his three cohorts centring a case accusing the four of gang raping the cop's ex-wife.

Admitted to One-Stop Crisis Centre of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, the victim, a police constable, is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and her speech is incoherent, her brother told The Daily Star. A forensic test has been conducted.

The 25-year-old victim told journalists that she believed she had been sedated when she went to her estranged husband's Khilgaon residence on Wednesday to see their three-year-old daughter. She managed to flee Thursday afternoon.

Her sister filed a case against the four on Saturday, said Khilgaon Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mustafiz Bhuiyan yesterday, adding that the ASI was on the run while the plaintiff could not provide any clue about the remaining three.

The ASI was transferred to Special Security and Protection Battalion from Khilgaon Police Station on Thursday.

After their divorce in November, the victim lodged a dowry case against the ASI with a Gazipur court. The ASI got anticipatory bail that month and custody of their daughter.

Meanwhile, a second man has been arrested over another gang rape of a woman in Palashbagh area of Rampura on Friday.

Sharif was arrested at Paschim Rampura. One Rahman had been arrested from the area on Saturday after two cases, one for rape and another for assault, were filed with Rampura Police Station, said Inspector Alamgir Bhuiyan.

The victim and her husband reached Rampura from Chittagong on Friday morning to visit her aunt. When the aunt went to work around 10:00am, four men stormed the house, confined the husband to a room and raped the woman.