Dhaka University Explodes in Protests as The Student is Raped in Dark, Bushy Place of Kurmitola

Dhaka University Explodes in Protests as The Student is Raped in Dark, Bushy Place of Kurmitola

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Dhaka University explodes in protests as a student is raped in dark, bushy place of Kurmitola. Daylong protests have rocked Dhaka University as police have spotted the dark, bushy place beside Airport Road in Kurmitola where a student has been raped.

Students continued protests throughout Monday on the campus, at Shahbagh, and Kurmitola while police’s Criminal Investigation Department or CID collected evidence from the scene, which remains dark after sunset as most of the streetlights don't work.

The evidence included a pair of the student’s sandals, her scarf, watch, notebook, keyring, an inhaler, and pants, consistent with Sudip Kumar Chakrabarty, a deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

“The place isn't much secluded, but bushes behind an enormous tree provide some cover,” he said.

Rumana Akter, a special superintendent of police within the CID, said they collected a complete of six pieces of evidence from the scene.

Earlier, the physicians of Dhaka Medical College Hospital found evidence of rape on the second-year undergraduate student of the university. Some of the assault marks were “made by the rapist himself” while the others occurred thanks to the crime scene, Dr. Sohel Mahmud, chief of the hospital’s forensic pathology department, told

Dhaka University Explodes in Protests as The Student is Raped in Dark, Bushy Place of Kurmitola

“A mark of abuse found on her neck suggests that the rapist pressed her down by grabbing her throat. She was also kicked and beaten by him,” the doctor said.

DNA tests are going to be done on her to verify whether there were the other culprits, he added.

The student boarded the university’s bus to visit her friend’s house on Sunday to organize for the exams. An unidentified man gagged her immediately after she got off the bus in Kurmitola at 7pm. He then took her to a close-by secluded place and violated her. The girl lost consciousness at one point.

After she regained consciousness at 10pm, she visited her friend’s house by autorickshaw and told her about the incident. Later, her classmates arrived and took her to the university’s hall. She was admitted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital after midnight.

Students of Dhaka University formed a person's chain at the altar of Raju Memorial Sculpture on Monday demanding justice over the rape of an undergraduate student of the university within the capital’s Kurmitola. Photo: Mahmud Zaman OviStudents of Dhaka University formed a person's chain at the altar of Raju Memorial Sculpture on Monday demanding justice over the rape of an undergraduate student of the university within the capital’s Kurmitola. Photo: Mahmud Zaman OviSeveral teachers, including Vice-Chancellor Md Akhtaruzzaman and Proctor Prof AKM Golam Rabbani, visited the scholar at the hospital.

“We are shocked. We stand by her family. It’s our first job to offer her mental strength,” the VC said, promising all measures necessary to make sure justice.

ASM Maksud Kamal and Nizamul Hoque Bhuiyan, president and general secretary of Dhaka University Teachers’ Association, respectively, demanded the rapist’s trial during a statement.

“As teachers, we are shocked, pained and angry at such brutality against a student, who is sort of a daughter to us,” the statement said.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal also promised swift justice. All the law-enforcing agencies were investigating the incident, he said.

The victim’s father started a case with Cantonment Police against an unidentified person, said Kazi Shahan Haque, chief of the local police headquarters.