Case filed over rape of two RMG workers in Sunamganj

Two garment workers were raped while they were trying to get back to Dhaka from their village home in Sunamganj's Jamalganj upazila on Monday.

A case was filed with Jamalganj Police Station on Tuesday night by the father of one of the victim accusing two persons -- Alamgir Miah, 25, and Abul Kalam, 26.

The victims, aged 21 and 18, are undergoing treatment at a hospital in Sylhet, said Mohammad Saiful Alam, officer-in-charge of Jamalganj Police Station.

According to the case statement, the victims are workers of a garment factory in Dhaka's Kamrangirchar area and went to their village home before the current "lockdown" was imposed.

On information of their factory reopening, they decided to return to Dhaka. They reached Jamalganj Sadar upazila and hired an auto-rickshaw to go to the boat dock.

Upon reaching the dock, they came to know that buses to Dhaka were not operating and they decided to return on the same auto-rickshaw, being driven by Abul Kalam while his associate Alamgir was also beside him.

They served cold drinks to the victims during the journey and then raped them in a paddy field next to the road, according to the case statement.

Locals later rescued the victims and took them to hospital.

The OC of Jamalganj Police Station said the police were looking for the fugitive accused.