A Dhaka court on Thursday placed Mojnu on a seven-day remand on charges of raping a Dhaka University student at city’s Kurmitola area on Sunday. Mojnu, described as a serial rapist, drug addict and mugger by Rab, was arrested on Wednesday morning, two days after the incident at Kurmitola.
Detective Branch Inspector Abu Siddiq produced the arrestee before the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Shorafuzzaman Ansari on Thursday afternoon and sought 10 days to interrogate him. The court gave the investigators seven days. “Mojnu, 30, hailing from Hatia, used to rape physically challenged women and beggars,” Lt Col Sarwar from RAB had told reporters.
He choked the DU student and dragged her to a nearby bush. He hit the girl and tried to kill her after rape, the Rab officer said, adding that the offender had admitted to being a serial rapist and a drug addict. The DU student was was undergoing treatment at the One-Stop Crisis Centre (OSCC) of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
Meanwhile, Brig Gen AKM Nasir Uddin, director of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said, they released her from the hospital. About the health condition of female student, he further said, “She is now well. Medical board examined her health condition on Wednesday. They decided today to release her. As per the decision of the board, we released the student from hospital.”
“We told her to come to the hospital whenever she feels sick. We assured her to extend all sorts of cooperation,” Nasir said, adding that before leaving hospital, father of the victim handed over a letter to him expressing gratitude to the DMCH, law enforcing agencies and DU authority.
Earlier on Sunday night, the female student had been picked up by an unidentified man after she got down from the university bus around 7pm at Sheora bus stand in the city, and was raped at a deserted spot at Kurmitola. The incident sparked widespread protest at Dhaka University and elsewhere. DU students blocked Shahbagh intersection on Monday and gave the authorities a 24-hour ultimatum for arresting the rapist. They protested on Tuesday and Wednesday, too. Teachers and students of DU on Wednesday demanded capital punishment for the rapist.
