Police take case 2 years after rape, murder

The ease was recorded after a court order.

Thirteen year-old Rakha Khatun, daughter of Tofazzol of Nurpur village, was gangraped and strangled on a field near her house on the night of July 7, 2002.

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Her father had gone to Kotwali police to file a case. But police reclined as the culprits were influential, he told this correspondent yesterday.

They had also threatened him not to complain to police.

Finally, Tofazzol lodged a complaint with a Magistrate court here. The court ordered police to record a rape and murder case.

The accused are Bellal, Dulal Mollah, Shimul and Rokon of Dakathia village in the Sadar upazila.