10-day remand plea filed against Tushar, Lavlu

Staff Correspondent: A 10-day remand plea has been filed against the detained Asraf alias Tushar and Lavlu with a Dhaka court over the gang-rape of a Garo girl on a moving microbus.

Sazzad Hossain, Officer-in-Charge of Vatara Police Station, filed the plea with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Kumar Dey on Thursday morning.

Earlier on May 26 night, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested Tushar, who is suspected as the mastermind of the gang-rape, and Lavlu, who was driving the vehicle.

They were arrested from Kuakata and capital`s Gulshan-1 respectively and RAB handed over them to the Vatara Police Station on May 27 night.

On May 21, the 21-year-old ethnic minority (Garo) girl was forced into a microbus near Jamuna Future Park area in the city and gang-raped. Later, she was dropped at Uttara`s Jashimuddin road.

Media reports had it that police stations initially dillydallied in taking her complaint. She was reportedly driven out from two police stations and had to wait more than 3 hours at another when went to file case.

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