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News No. 103/2014, Friday, November 7, 2014
A Jumma
woman was subjected to an attempted rape by a Border Guard Bangladesh personnel
in Sajek of Baghaichari Upazilla in Rangamati District on Monday.
According
to the victim the incident took place on 3 November when she and two other
Jumma women went to a hilly stream nearby their village, Bhushan Karbari Para.
As they
were taking bath, five BGB personnel from Shialdai camp went to the same
stream.
"Three
of the five BGB personnel went back to the camp after taking bath, leaving
behind the other two." she said.
"
Then one BGB man sat close to me and said something in Bangla which I did not
understand, and I told him in our Tripura language that I do not understand
Bangla." she added.
She said
as she was climbing up the hill after bath and carrying water-filled plastic
bottles, the said BGB man, who was later identified as Rafiqul, grabbed and
attempted to rape her.
As she
screamed, the BGB man let go of her, and she strode back home.
When she
told the incident to the village folks, the youths went to the BGB camp taking
the victim and her elder sister and made a strong protest.
The
victim, wife of Korno Ram Tripura, identified the perpetrator while the angry
youth gave him a good thrashing.
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