The police on Sunday filed a case against 21 people with Munshiganj Sadar police station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act allegedly for beating two girls in a launch anchored at Munshiganj launch terminal on Friday.
The case was filed amid criticism from different quarters as a video clipping of the torture went viral on Social media.
Rights organization Ain O Salish Kendra in a statement on Sunday urged the government to take necessary steps to resist violence against women and ensure women鈥檚 free movement.
Munshiganj Sadar police station officer-in-charge Saiful Alam said that Mutkarpur river police sub-inspector Md Milon filed the case Nehal Ahmed alias Jihad, who was seen beating the girls in a viral video clipping, and 15 or 20 other unnamed people.
He said that neither the launch owner nor the victims agreed to file any case in this connection.
He said that they detained Nehal on Saturday and showed him arrested in the case.
In the video clipping, Nehal was seen beating two girls with a belt at the bow of the launch in the presence of a crowd alleging that the girls鈥� dresses were not appropriate.
The ASK statement said that when the launch docked at the Munshiganj Launch terminal at about 8:30pm on Friday, Nehal, a known face of the Student Movement Against Discrimination in Munshiganj, tortured the girls mercilessly in the presence of hundreds of people.
The organisation observed that there was an indication of shrinking the scope of women鈥檚 free movement in the backdrop of the country鈥檚 current socio-cultural and political scenario.
It said that the government should protect the women victims of violence, and legal action against the perpetrators of the Munshiganj incident.
