Rape incidents on rise
The incidents of rape have been rising for a few months, as police data based on cases filed show.
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Four placed on 3-day remand over filming rape victim
A Cumilla court on Thursday granted a three-day remand for four individuals arrested in a case filed under the Pornography Control Act over the filming and circulating video footage of a rape victim at Muradnagar upazila in Cumilla...
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Four people put on remand over Muradnagar rape video leak
A Cumilla court on Thursday placed four accused on a three-day remand each in a case over circulating a video of a rape incident in Muradnagar upazila of Cumilla...
Punishment demanded for perpetrators
Women leaders at a protest rally in Dhaka on Wednesday called on the interim government to take immediate steps to arrest the rapist responsible for the rape of the woman at Muradnagar in Cumilla...
Youth arrested on charges of abduction, rape of schoolgirl
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion on Monday night arrested a youth on charges of kidnapping and raping a Class VII schoolgirl in Rajshahi...
Men belonging to BNP associate bodies accused of rape in Bhola
Three men, who are leaders and activists of three organisations associated with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, have been accused of raping a housewife and torturing her husband early Monday at a village of Tajumuddin upazila in Bhola...
Muradnagar rape victim leaves home
The woman, who was raped, tortured and videoed in a village under Muradnagar upazila in Cumilla, has left her father鈥檚 home due to 鈥榠nterview pressure鈥� and crowds flocking around her house every day...
Constable held for alleged rape
A constable of the Dharmapasha police station in Sunamganj was arrested early Tuesday on charges of raping a Higher Secondary Certificate examinee...
Police seek to interrogate 4 under pornography law
The Muradnagar police in Cumilla on Monday produced the four people arrested under the Pornography Control Act over the rape of a Hindu woman and circulation of the video of the crime, asking for a seven-day remand for each...
Man jailed for 10 years for attempted child rape in Hatirjheel
A Dhaka court on Monday sentenced Md Shukur Ali Sheikh, 35, to 10-year imprisonment in a case lodged over the attempted rape of a six-year-old child in the city鈥檚 Hatirjheel area in 2021...
Law student in India 鈥榞angrape鈥� pre-planned
Three out of the four persons arrested in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a female student at a city-based law college had pre-planned the assault, a police officer said on Monday, Press Trust of India...
Man arrested for rape, abduction of teenage girl
A man has been arrested in Chattogram on charges of raping a teenage girl for several months in confinement after he had abducted her from Hatiya upazila in Noakhali...
Protests erupt as woman raped in Cumilla
Protests erupted in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country on Sunday as Thursday night鈥檚 rape of a 21-year-old woman in a village under Muradnagar upazila in Cumilla came to light after a video went viral on social media Saturday night...
MURADNAGAR RAPE: HC seeks probe update, orders protection for victim
The High Court on Sunday directed the inspector general of police to submit a progress report within 15 days on the investigation into the reported rape of a housewife in Muradnagar, Cumilla.
Prime accused in Muradnagar rape case arrested in Dhaka
Police arrested the prime accused in the rape case involving an expatriate鈥檚 wife in Muradnagar upazila of Cumilla, in Dhaka鈥檚 Sutrapur area on early Sunday...
Woman raped in Cumilla
A 27- year-old Hindu woman was raped at her home at a village of Muradnagar upazila in Cumilla on Thursday night...
Son of Norway princess suspected of three rapes
The son of Norway鈥檚 crown princess is suspected of three rapes and nearly two dozen other offences, Norwegian police said Friday, handing the case to prosecutors to decide whether to press charges.
Expeditious trial needed to stop rape on running vehicles
THE rape of a woman allegedly by a temporary railway employee on board the Rangpur Express on June 25 is yet another disturbing reminder of the unsafe condition that women face in public transports. The incident took place in the train鈥檚 toilet as it left Kamalapur station in Dhaka. The accused, an outsourced employee, was detained shortly afterwards. The woman...
Woman raped on moving train
A woman was allegedly raped by a temporary railway employee on a moving train in Dhaka Wednesday morning...
Two SUST students expelled for raping classmate
The Shahjalal University of Science and Technology administration on Tuesday expelled the university鈥檚 two students for life on charge of raping a female classmate.
US warns American women not to travel alone in India, issues level 2 travel advisory
The US government has issued a level-2 travel advisory for India and warned US citizens, especially women, not to travel alone in the country.
Security guard arrested over rape inside ATM booth
The police arrested a security guard of an ATM booth on Monday night on charge of raping a 14-year-old girl inside the booth at Sripur in Gazipur on the same day.
Govt inertia fuels crisis of gendered violence
FIVE incidents rape that took place in four days since June 13 in Rajbari, Habiganj, Gazipur and Munshiganj lay bare the pervasive threat that girls and young women face. Two schoolgirls were abducted and raped at Pangsha in Rajpari in the morning on June 15. One of the accused was arrested. Two cases were filed. The driver of a bus and his assistant raped a young...
College student raped inside moving bus in Habiganj
What began as a quiet afternoon journey home turned into a horrific ordeal for a young college student travelling to Baniachong upazila of Habiganj from Dhaka...
Teenagers among 5 raped in聽four districts
Five incidents of rape came to light on Monday with cases filed in three more districts stating that the victims were aged between 11 and 21.
Garment factory worker raped, 2 arrested
Two people, including a hotel manager and its security guard, were arrested for allegedly raping a female ready-made garment factory worker at the hotel in Sylhet early Sunday...
Female garment worker raped while returning home from work
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.
Singer Nobel arrested for raping, torturing woman
The police arrested singer Mainul Hasan Noble at a house in the Demra Staff Quarter area of the capital early Tuesday allegedly for raping and torturing a woman keeping her confined at a house in Dhaka for seven months...
Prime accused in Magura girl rape, murder case sentenced to death
The Magura Women and Children Repression (Prevention) Tribunal on Saturday sentenced prime accused Hitu Sheikh, 50, to death for raping and killing an eight-year-old girl in the district in March this year.