A housewife in 2500 was taken from the road and taken to the middle of the river and gang-raped by her ex-husband and his associates. When her husband went to the spot to rescue his wife, the rapists beat him with a rod and injured him. In this incident, the woman's husband filed a case with Araihajar police station on Thursday, mentioning the names of five people.
According to police and local sources, the housewife's house is in Kalapahariya area of the upazila. She got married to Sheikh Farid of Radhanagar village five years ago. Before the marriage, the girl's family did not know that Farid was a drug addict. After marriage, Farid often beat his wife for drug money. There are many local arbitrations about this. At one point, after a year of marriage, the girl divorced Farid and moved to her father's house in the presence of the Qazi and local dignitaries. Next year, the girl got married again with another young man from Kalapahariya area. But despite this, Farid collected the phone number of his ex-wife and often harassed and threatened her in various ways. Last Sunday evening, Farid and his colleagues went to Radhanagar Bazaar to buy medicine. Halim, Md. Mojibur, Sohel Mia and others. Kadir forcibly took the housewife from the street. They gang-raped the housewife by taking an engine boat through the Meghna Ghat to the Meghnadi and dropped her in the area called Nabunbazar. The woman called her husband from there while seriously ill and told the incident. When her husband went to the ghat area of the river at night in search of his wife, the rapists saw him and forcibly took him to the middle of the river, beat him with a rod and left him in the trawler. Later, he came from there to Newbazar in an injured state and rescued his wife and admitted her to Upazila Health Complex.
Meanwhile, it was also alleged that some influential people of Kalapahariya area pressured the housewife and her husband not to settle the rape case and file a case against Farid even after returning home. The housewife's husband said that yesterday he went to the Araihajar police station with his wife as a trick to go to the hospital.
Imdadul Islam Tayyab, OC of Araihajar police station, said that the case has been taken. The police launched an operation to arrest the accused. The housewife has been sent to Narayanganj hospital for medical examination.
