Fresh protest in Jhenidah

11 October 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent Jhenidah

Hundreds of people again formed a human chain, brought out a procession and held a rally at Shailkupa upazila town yesterday protesting rape of a mentally challenged girl and demanding exemplary punishment of the rapist. The programme was arranged by “Shushil Samaj Coalition,” a local NGO. The speakers at the rally warned that they would go for tougher programme in case of travesty of justice. Meanwhile, the officer in-charge (OC) of Shailkupa police station told the Daily Star that police have recovered the motorbike in which the rapist carried the retarded girl. “We are trying to nab the culprit,” he added. A local leader of the ruling party on September 26 night allegedly raped the mentally challenged girl of village Mohespur.