Bullet-hit body of rape accused found in Ctg

Police today recovered the bullet-hit body of a prime accused in a case filed for gang-rape of a readymade garment worker at Anwara upazila of Chattogram.

The deceased was identified as Abdur Nur, 25, reports our local staff correspondent quoting police.

“Nur was the prime accused of RMG worker’s gang-raped incident. He was also accused in three mugging cases filed with Anwara police station,” said Dulal Mahmud, officer-in-charge of the police station.

Locals spotted the body lying on a hill in Barokhain union early today and informed the lawmen. Later, police recovered the body. The law enforcers also seized a light gun and four rounds of cartridges and three knives from the spot, he said.

“Police suspected that he was shot dead by rival men following an internal feud of two criminal groups in midnight,” the police official said.

The body was sent to Chattogram Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy, he added.

According to the case statement filed over the rape incident, the victim was returning home from her workplace on Wednesday night with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw that already had three men in it.

Then, the trio took the girl to an isolated place near Boiragi union’s China Road and two of them raped her, it said.

Later, they took the girl in the auto-rickshaw and dumped her beside Chattogram-Anwara road. The criminals also called the victim’s family members and informed them about the incident, the case statement read.

The victim was rescued by her family members and rushed to Karnaphuli Upazila Health Complex. She was later shifted to Chattogram Medical College and Hospital.