A Chuadanga court yesterday sentenced five policemen to life imprisonment for raping a woman at a police camp in Alamdanga upazila on December 18, 2004.
District Women and Children Repression Prevention Court Judge Motahar Hossain delivered the verdict in presence of the five convicts.
They are Subedar Abdul Kuddus, Habildar Rokonuzzaman, constables Iftekharul Kabir, Harunur Rashid and Harun-or-Rashid.
The prosecution said the five policemen of Gokulkhali police camp in Alamdanga upazila picked up Dolly, a widow, from Bhalaipur intersection where she had been waiting for transport to get back home at Mukterpur of Damurhuda upazila at about 8:30pm.
They took her to the police camp by a van and gang-raped Dolly leaving her injured.
When her condition deteriorated, the policemen forced Akram, driver of Alamsadhu, a locally-made carrier, to take Dolly to her house.
She was admitted to the Chuadanga Sadar Hospital the next day.
Dolly filed a rape case against the five cops with Alamdanga Police Station on December 22.
A probe body headed by the then Additional Superintendent of police Awlad Hossain was formed.
The probe body in its report said the policemen did not rape Dolly but they sexually assaulted her.
The five policemen were suspended and arrested on December 28. They were produced before a magistrate’s court that sent them to jail the next day.
Later, the case was transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) that submitted the charge sheet to the court on February 19, 2005 after a two-month-long investigation.
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