<i>I'll commit suicide in case of any mockery of justice</i>

Says rape victim

27 August 2009, 17:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Khulna

A victim of gang rape has warned of committing suicide if she is deprived of getting justice. “I filed a case with Khulna Sadar Police Station on May 14 this year naming Lavlu, Hannan, Kamruzzaman and Shoaib as accused,” said the victim Kona Akhtar, a student of Independent University in Khulna, at a press conference at Khulna Press Club on Wednesday noon. But the investigation officer (IO) submitted charge sheet to the court on August 23 dropping the names of Hannan, Kamruzzaman and Shoaib, she said. The pieces of evidence now lying with IO Tipu Sultan are report on findings of medical test, confessional statements of all the accused and report on findings of probe into incident conducted by a first class magistrate following order of Khulna deputy commissioner, she added. The four accused, who are still at large, gave deaths threats several times to her and her father for filing the case, she alleged. The criminals who gang-raped her on May 8 in a house at Labonchora under Khulna Sadar Police Station, also captured the incident in a video camera, the victim said. “I reject this biased charge sheet. I will commit suicide if the court does not accept my naraji petition,” Kona said at the press conference. Her father SM Abdul Quddus, supervisor of Zemini Sea Foods Ltd of Khulna, was present at the conference.