4 sent to jail for rape of mentally challenged woman

A Cumilla court yesterday sent four men to jail on charge of gang-raping a mentally challenged woman in the district's Homna upazila.

The accused are Hasan, 27, Rassel ,20, Yousuf alias Badsha ,25, and Sohag,16, all from Charkuria of Asadpur in the upazila.

Abul Kayes Akand, officer-in-charge of Homna Police Station, said all four of them were on Saturday, after the victim's family filed a complaint.

According to local sources, the alleged rapists went to a village arbitration to conceal the incident. On information, police intervened and conducted drives to arrest the miscreants.

Fazlul Karim, senior assistant superintendent of Cumilla police, said the victim and her husband both were mentally challenged. Their family did not even know how to file a complaint.

Knowing about it, police called them to the police station, accepted a case, and then took further steps, he added.