Six held in two separate incidents of rape in Ashulia

Police have arrested five people on charges of gang-raping a housewife and held another man for raping three children in two separate incidents in Savar's Ashulia.

The 25-year-old housewife was gang-raped multiple times by the arrestees- Saiful Islam (18), Antar (19), Jotirmoy Saha (20), Pappu Saha (19), and Milon (21), said Inspector (investigation) Ziaul Islam of Ashulia Police Station.

The survivor, who is a resident of Dhaka's Mirpur, told our Savar correspondent that she came to know Saiful and Antar around one and half months ago over phone.

They called her to Ashulia, saying they will lend her some money for her house-rent.

After she went to Ashulia from Mirpur on September 23, Saiful and Antar gave her Tk 1000. But later, they forcibly took her to an abandoned place where they along with others raped her, she said.

After she returned home, they started threatening her over the phone. They said they will let her husband and others know about the incident if she doesn't go to see them again.

Scared, the survivor went back to Ashulia and was gang-raped again by the same people, she added.

The rapists, however, continued to blackmail her. At one point she revealed the incidents to her husband who went to police for help last night, she added.

Police arrested the five during a raid in Rustompur area, Inspector Ziaul Islam said.

The others involved are yet to be arrested, he also said, adding that a case was being filed in this regard with the police station.

On the other hand, Helaluddin (57), was arrested for raping a pair of nine-year-old twin girls and another child of the same age on August 6.

The father of the twins, a worker at a garments factory, filed a case with Ashulia Police Station in this regard last night, Inspector Ziaul Islam said.

According to the case statement, the landlord of their rented house, Helaluddin lured the three girls to his room saying he will buy them bottle of cold-drink on the day of the incident when their parents were away at work.

He then raped the trio, the inspector said quoting the survivors' father.

Police arrested Helal last night from his house in Ashulia, the inspector added.