<i>Two held for rape, spreading video</i>
Police on Monday night and Wednesday arrested two people on charge of raping a college girl and spreading video clips of the incident through mobile phones.
The arrestees are Ayub Hossain, 32, of Rasulpur village, and Rafiqul Islam, 30, of Kashempur village in Satkhira Sadar upazila.
At around 5:00pm on September 2, the victim, an examinee from a polytechnic institute, was going to a kitchen market at Kadamtola Bazar in Satkhira town when local youths Ayub Hossain, 32, Ariful Islam, 22, and Sabuj, 20, waylaid her and took her to a nearby room where Ayub Hossain resides, according to the victim.
There they raped her and videoed the scene on their cell phones. They also took her father's cell phone number.
The victim's father said that on October 4, one of the criminals demanded Tk 1 lakh from him and threatened to spread the video clips of the incident in case of refusal to give the money. They asked him to hand over the money near Kadamtola Bridge.
The girl along with Sub-inspector Anima Rani of Sadar police station went to the spot wearing veil, but the criminals were not found there.
On October 14, the victim filed a complaint mentioning the names of Ayub, Ariful and Sabuj and police recorded the complaint as a case the next day.
The same night police arrested Ayub from his house, seized a computer from the house of another accused Sabuj and recovered the video clips.
Later on Wednesday, police arrested trader Rafiqul Islam from Kashempur village and seized from his possession a computer that also contained the obscene video clips.
The victim's mother said a local Jubo League leader is threatening them to withdraw the case and pressurising the family to marry off the girl with Ariful, one of the rapists.
Bangladesh Mahila Parishad in a statement yesterday demanded early steps to ensure punishment of the criminals and safety of the victim and her family members.
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