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Aug 2 police deadline to file Pohela Baishakh molestation report
A Dhaka court has granted more time for police to submit the report on fresh investigations over enmasse sexual assault on females during the 2015 Bangla New Year celebrations.
Published : 26 June 2016, 09:35 AM
Updated : 26 June 2016, 09:35 AM
The report was scheduled to be filed on Sunday, but a metropolitan magistrate court extended the deadline, for a fourth time, until Aug 2 after the Police Bureau of Investigation failed to submit it.
Police’s prosecution wing Assistant Commissioner Mirash Uddin said that the court had to defer the hearing on four occasions previously— Mar 23, Apr 17, May 10 and Jun 2.
Several women were sexually assaulted by some youths at the main entrance of the Suhrawardy Udyan on the Dhaka University’s campus in the evening of Apr 14 last year, when the country was celebrating the Bangla New Year.
The incident in the presence of police triggered a furore across the country, especially on the social media.
Student organisations and human rights groups erupted in regular protests.
Police later said they had identified eight offenders from the CCTV camera footage, but managed to catch only one of them.
A court in March this year had ordered the Police Bureau of Investigation to again investigate the incident.
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