Police rape case: Court orders to file FIR against PIB SP

A Dhaka court on Thursday ordered to file a female police inspector’s rape case against superintendent of Police Bureau of Investigation (PIB) Moktar Hossain as an FIR in East Uttara police station.

Judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-7 Begum Mst Kamrunnahar passed the order after the female inspector filed an appeal before the court.

Special public prosecutor of the court Afroza Orange confirmed the news to UNB.

According to the complaint, in 2019 the alleged victim and the accused both were serving in a peacekeeping mission of the United Nations (UN) in Sudan.

On December 20, 2019 accused Moktar went to the female inspector’s residence and raped her. Later the victim was raped again by the accused on December 22 at the same place when he went to apologize for his previous actions.

The victim had been threatened by SP Moktar several times against disclosing the incident to anyone.

According to the victim, at one point the accused raped her promising marriage.

The plaintiff filed a complaint at the Police Department in this regard which is under investigation and yet to be resolved.

Source: United News of Bangladesh