Bangalore: Police fired Friday at two of the six Bangladeshis arrested in the gangrape case here. They had to fire as the duo tried to escape by allegedly trying to attack police during the spot inspection of the crime scene here, officials said. The two injured have been identified as Hridoy and Sagar. Both are in their early twenties, police sources said.
Four men among the six arrested were taken to the rented house where they stayed in K Channasandra for spot inspection of the crime scene. During inspection two of them attacked the policemen and tried to escape. According to sources, both were shot in their legs and caught. They are now undergoing treatment at a government hospital.
Bangalore police had Thursday arrested six illegal Bangladeshi migrants – four men and two women – in Ramamurthy Nagar here. They were allegedly brutalising a woman and raping her, a video of which has gone viral.
On the basis of the contents in the video clip and facts as disclosed during their preliminary interrogation, a case of rape, assault and under other relevant provisions of law, has been registered against the accused in Ramamurthy Nagar Police Station, police had said in a statement Friday night.
As the victim is away in a neighbouring state, a police team has been dispatched to trace her, so that she could join the investigation, it said.
As per the information revealed so far, all of them including the victim are part of the same group. Due to financial dispute, they brutalised the victim, who is also said to be a Bangladeshi. She was brought to India for human trafficking, police said.
“The victim was raped, battered and had a glass bottle shoved into her private parts and all this was recorded by one of the arrested,” police sources informed.
The video first surfaced in Bangladesh after which the Deputy Commissioner of Tejgaon zone of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Mohammad Sahidulla took up the case, police said. During the investigation in Bangladesh, one of their accomplices was caught and interrogated. He told the local police that the video was shot somewhere in India.
In the meantime, the Assam police too stumbled upon the video. Believing that it was somewhere in Assam, the police posted the photographs of the culprits on their Twitter handle with a message requesting people to contact them for information regarding the crime or the criminals. They were finally arrested here.
Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa termed the gangrape as an ‘inhuman act’ which no one can tolerate. He said, the culprits should be strictly punished and ‘we will ensure that’.