Police superintendent charged with raping colleague several times

A female inspector has brought charges against Moktar Hossain, a superintendent of police, for raping her and then forcing her into sex with him by making false promise of marriage.

Uttara East Police Station in Dhaka recorded a case on Thursday midnight following a court order, said Saiful Islam, a deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

“The case was lodged after a copy of the order reached the station. Now we're looking after all the issues, including the arrest of the accused.”

The superintendent is accused of raping the plaintiff several times during a UN

peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur in 2019 and again at a hotel in Uttara once the two were back in Bangladesh.

Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Mosammat Kamrun Nahar heard the statement of the plaintiff for nearly one and a half hours on Thursday, said Md Jafar Hossain, a deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

The judge ordered the police to record the case with the petition as the First Information Report, said Afroza Farhana Ahmed Orange, a special public prosecutor.

The officer who faces rape accusations, Moktar, is currently assigned to the Bagerhat offices of the Police Bureau of Investigation.

Several attempts were made to contact him by phone, but he did not take the calls.

“I'll inquire about the matter and inform you later,” said Md Sohel Rana, a spokesperson for the Police Headquarters. He could not be reached afterwards.

“Since a case has been filed, it will be investigated accordingly,” PBI Chief Banaj Kumar Majumder told bdnews24.com. “Everything will be revealed in the inquiry.”

“The plaintiff did not bring the allegation to the PBI before seeking a case,” he said.

According to the case dossier, Moktar joined the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur in 2019. The plaintiff had already been assigned there at the time.

She said as she had been assigned there for sometime, Moktar would contact her under the ruse of “requiring her help” with something and making excuses to go to her house.

Moktar, her senior colleague, then “raped her” on Dec 20, 2019 and “threatened” her with consequences if she told anyone about it, she said.

Then, on Dec 22, he went to her house, saying that he had made a mistake and asked for her forgiveness before “raping” her again.

Moktar promised to marry her and then, when the two were back home on holiday, lured her into a hotel in Uttara with promises of marriage on Feb 9, 2020 and “raped” her for a third time.

The woman said she was then “raped” again at a hotel in Sudan’s Khartoum between Jun 26 and Jun 30, 2020 and for a fifth time between Nov 10 and Nov 13 at a hotel in Uttara.

Once the two returned to Bangladesh, she urged Moktar to register their marriage, but he showed his reluctance to follow through. On Apr 12, 2021, she went to his house in Rajarbagh to push him to register the marriage, but he refused.

The defendant’s wife and family who were at home at the time got angry and “beat her”, the plaintiff alleged.

She said she was late with her petition to file a case because of the pandemic.