Woman gang-raped while trying to find missing son in Chandpur, 2 accused held
Police detained the accused from the village shortly after the case was registered, and the victim was sent to Chandpur Sadar Hospital for medical examination
A 26-year-old housewife was allegedly gang-raped while searching for her missing son in Kachua upazila of Chandpur district on Wednesday evening.
Police, however, detained two men accused in the incident. They were identified as Md Suman, 31 and Md Mohsin, 28, hailing from Harichail village of the upazila.
Of them, Suman is a bus driver and Mohsin a helper.
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The victim and the accused are known to each other, according to the police.
Azizul Islam, officer-in-charge of Kachua police station, said that the housewife went out on Wednesday evening to search for her 10-year-old son Ibrahim, a madrasa student, who had gone missing.
The accused allegedly misled her by claiming that the boy was hiding in the house of one Arif in Munshi Bari in the village. When she went there, the accused allegedly raped her by turns.
Later on Thursday, the victim filed a case with Kachua police station.
Police detained the accused from the village shortly after the case was registered, he said, adding that the victim was sent to Chandpur Sadar Hospital for medical examination.
