A case was filed on Saturday against three individuals for allegedly raping a 35-year-old garment worker while she was returning home from her workplace at Sripur upazila in Gazipur on May 20.
The accused are Alamin, 27, Shanto, 25, and Sumon, 26, all residents of Nantu Potka village under Goshinga union of the upazila.
Confirming the matter, Sripur police officer-in-charge Abdul Barek said that the victim filed the case with the police station on Saturday.
鈥楾he survivor was sent to Gazipur Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital for a medical examination on Saturday,鈥� he said.
The accused have been on the run since the incident, and police were trying to arrest them, the OC added.
According to the case statement, the victim was returning home in a battery-run auto-rickshaw at about 11:00pm on Tuesday.
At around 11:30pm, she got off near a shop adjacent to a local factory in Nantu Potka village and started walking home.
As she walked past the shop, the accused grabbed her and gagged her with a piece of cloth when she screamed, and took her to a forest, where they allegedly raped her until dawn.
Before releasing her in the early morning of Wednesday, they threatened her to remain silent about the incident.
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