Three miscreants identified over gang-rape of female tourist in Cox’s Bazar

Three miscreants have been identified from CCTV footage over the gang rape of a woman tourist in Cox’s Bazar.

Crime Prevention Company (CPC) commander of RAB-15 major Mehedi Hasan told Prothom Alo that drive is going on to detain the three.

He said one of the miscreants is Ashik, a criminal from Cox’s Bazar city’s Baharchhara area.

No case has so far been filed over the incident as of 6:00pm today. The victim is now undergoing medical tests at One-Stop Crisis Center (OCC) of Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital.

RAB detained Riaz Uddin Choton, 29, manager of the resort where the miscreants took the woman and raped her.

Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital’s residential medical officer (RMO) Shahin Md Abdur Rahman Chowdhury said the women might need to stay two to three days at the hospital.

The husband of the 22-year-old victim said that he went to Cox's Bazar with his wife and their eight-month-old baby on Wednesday morning. He had an altercation with one of the accused after he accidentally bumped into the latter in the afternoon at Laboni point.

The young man later called his accomplices to the spot. They kidnapped the woman in an auto-rickshaw in the evening and raped her at a makeshift tea stall. Later the three miscreants took the woman to a resort and left her under lock and keys.

The victim said she opened the room’s door with help of another person and called national helpline 999. The authorities of the helpline asked her to file a general diary (GD) first. The victim later called RAB-15 and they rescued the woman from the resort.