Two gang-rape suspects shot in leg as they tried to escape

5 Bangladeshi Nationals Have Been Arrested In Bengaluru

Bengaluru: On early Friday morning, two of the six Bangladeshi nationals who were arrested in association with the brutal assault and gang rape of a woman were shot in the leg by cops as they tried to escape during a spot visit. Police stated that the accused Ridoy Babu (25) and Islam Sagar (23) attacked Banaswadi ACP NB Sakri and a constable while trying to evade.

DCP SD Sharanappa said that the spot mahazar was on at Kanakanagar, Ramamurthynagar, Off Old Madras Road when both of them made such an attempt. Inspector Melvin Francis and sub-inspector Aravind Kumar shot at their legs after which they were taken to a nearby hospital.

Baby and Sagar were arrested along with Mohammad Babu Shaikh (30), Hakil (23), and two women Nasrath and Kajal on Thursday after videos of the gang rape of a Bangladeshi woman was circulated in Assam and police there gave a warning. Some of the men in the video are yet to be traced.

According to the preliminary investigation, Shaikh had come to Bengaluru seven months ago. All the accused were part of a prosecution racket in Hyderabad, parts of Kerala and Bengaluru. All of them resided in Ramamurthynagar. The group used to traffic women from Bangladesh and had brought the gang rape survivor from there two years ago.

The survivor was working in spas in Hyderabad and Kozhikode. She came to Bengaluru three months ago and went back to Kozhikode a few months ago. According to the sources Shaik doubted that the survivor was accountable for the arrest of his wife and sister in Hyderabad on charges of prostitution fee weeks back. He was also of the view that she is cheating him of money and diverted trafficked women to her spa in Kozhikode.

Last week Shaikh and his friends convinced her to come to Bengaluru where they assaulted her on May 19 and 20. Police sources said that the women accomplices aided them in the act. The suspects made a video of the same and sent it to the survivor’s friend. The video was then circulated among the Bangladeshis settled in Bengaluru and to the northeastern states and Dhaka. Police told that the survivor has been traced. She had gone back to Kerala. She is likely to reach Bengaluru late Friday night.