Arrestee gives confessional statement to court

A Patuakhali court yesterday recorded the confessional statements of the only arrestee in the case for gang rape of a Hindu woman and her daughter in Baufal upazila under Patuakhali district on Saturday night.

Md Amirul Islam, senior judicial magistrate in Patuakhali, recorded the statement under Section 164, said Md Saiful Islam, officer-in-charge (inquiry) of Baufal Police Station, also investigation officer (IO) of the case.

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Accused Nur Alam, who was arrested by police from the spot of the crime, was sent to jail after the confessional statement to the court, he said.

The court also recorded statements of the two victims over the matter yesterday, the IO said, adding that their medical tests were done at Patuakhali General Hospital on Sunday afternoon.

The woman, aged around 35, and her daughter, a college student, were allegedly gang raped in a trawler on the Tentulia River in Baufal upazila under Patuakhali district on Saturday night.

They went from their Kachipara village home to Kalaiya area to visit a park on Saturday noon.

Around 4:00pm, they came out of the park and got into a hired bike to go to a relative's house at a nearby village. But the biker took them to Nindi launch ghat instead. He along with five other youths forcibly made the victims board a trawler where they were gang-raped later.

Nur Alam, also a vice president of Baufal upazila's Najirpur union ward-1 unit of Swechchhasebak League, was arrested from the spot.

"We are trying our best to arrest the other alleged rapists as soon as possible," the IO said.