Rape of Speech Impaired Girl
HC orders DNA test to identify culprits
The High Court yesterday directed police to immediately get Dhaka Medical College Hospital doctors to carry out a DNA test on a speech impaired girl, who was raped in Munshiganj's Louhojang upazila last month, to identify the rapists.
Hearing a petition filed on the basis of an August 1 Janakantha report, the court also directed police to submit the test report to it as early as possible.
The report said one, Shipan Bepari of Singherhati village of Kanaksar union under Louhojang upazila, abducted the girl from a road, confined and raped her for two days in a house and left her on the road at the end of July.
Police rescued the girl on July 30, held talks with local Awami League leaders led by one, Monir Hossain, and sent her to her village in Bhola on July 31, without carrying out any medical test, to suppress the incident, it said.
Yesterday, the HC bench ordered police to arrest the rapists and provide security to the girl and her family.
The judges also heard from the girl's mother in their chamber, where the girl was present. They were brought by police as per the HC's August 2 directive.
Louhojang Police Station officer-in-charge, Abdul Malek, and investigation inspector, AKM Masud Khan, and Monir, Kanaksar union AL president, also appeared yesterday.
The court, on August 2, had summoned the policemen for not recording a case over the incident and Monir for allegedly pressing police not to accept the case.
The bench yesterday ordered them to again appear before it on October 14.
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