Banani rape: charge sheet submitted against 5

Police on Thursday submitted a charge sheet accusing five people including Shafat Ahmed in a case filed over raping two university girls at the Raintree Hotel in Banani.

Confirming the matter to the Jagonews24.com, Ismat Ara, Inspector of Women Support and Investigation Division and also the investigation officer of the case, said that, she submitted the charge sheet in the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court.

Shafaat Ahmed, 26, Nayeem Ashraf, 30, Sadman Sakif, 24, Billal Hossain, 26 and Rahmat Ali are among the accused in the case. 

Shafat, son of one of the owners of Apan Jewellers, and his friend Nayem raped the girls at gunpoint and recorded the incident on a mobile phone.

Shafat and Shadman were arrested in Sylhet on May 11. Shafat’s driver Billal Hossain and bodyguard Rahmat Ali were arrested on 15 May while Nayem was apprehended on May 17.

It is mentionable that, two female university students were raped at the Raintree Hotel on March 28. Later they filed a case against them with Banani Police Station on May 6.