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esidential hotel at Mohakhali on the promise of providing her with a job. After taking the victim
there, the accused, with help from hotel staff, raped her twice and left her there unconscious.
After regaining consciousness, she came out of the hotel, came to the Farmgate area and
requested a police sergeant to help her go to Jessore. The sergeant sent her to Gabtoli Bus
Terminal with another person. There she disclosed the facts to the local people who took her to
police at the Mirpur police outpost and Mirpur police station where a case was filed.
Margina informed Odhikar that she came to Dhaka from Mymensingh en route to Jessore on 27
July 2005. On the way, she lost her bag with all her money and could not get to Jessore. At the
Gabtoli Bus Terminal in Dhaka, she sought help from people but none came forward. Helpless
Margina was sitting at a tea-stall for a long time. The owner of the tea-stall, Afzal (60), on
listening to her problem, gave her shelter for that night. The next day, he brought her to the
Gabtoli bust terminal. At that time, two patrol police came to his tea-stall and one of them
offered her work in his home. Initially, she refused but after the assurance of a good salary, she
accepted the offer. At around 8 am in the morning, the accused Nayek Nurul Islam hired an autorickshaw
and started for his home with Margina. After around 15/20 minutes, he stopped the
auto-rickshaw, paid for it and left her telling her to wait at a roadside place. After ten minutes, he
came back wearing civilian clothes and took her to a nearby bus stop by a rickshaw. There he
kept her waiting for half an-hour and went somewhere to make a phone call. Then he came back
and got into a bus with her. After a bus ride for about an hour, he got down from the bus with her
and took her to a building across the street. There, a person of around 25/30 years of age
unlocked a room and Nurul Islam sent that person to bring some snacks. It was at around 11 am
in the morning. Nurul Islam told her that his wife would be coming and requested her to get
inside the room. As soon as she entered the room, he closed the door and started touching her.
She shouted out in fear and the accused held her mouth and undressed her. After that, the
accused raped her twice.
When asked, the victim expressed her ignorance about the name or location of the hotel since
she was a newcomer in Dhaka City. She informed Odhikar that initially she could not understand
that the place was a hotel. After the incident, the accused Nayek Nurul Islam left her and the
hotel person got her out of the hotel. From there, she came to the city's Farmgate area on foot
and was weeping beside the road. A traffic police sergeant came forward and asked her where
she would like to go. On hearing her destination, he sent her with a person to Gabtoli bus
terminal. That person requested another police to get Margina into a Jessore-bound bus but that
police did not help her. Finding no other way, she started weeping again sitting in the terminal.
The other passengers became curious and on listening to her ordeal, they started looking for
Nayek Nurul Islam, the alleged perpetrator. Failing to find him, they took her first to Mirpur
police outpost. Police from Mirpur police station came to the outpost and took her to Mirpur
police station. On listening to the incident in detail, they filed a case and sent Margina to Dhaka
Medical College Hospital for treatment.
The officer in charge of the Mirpur police station informed Odhikar that the case was filed under
Section 7/9(1)/30 of the Prevention of Repression against Women and Children Act, the number
of the case was 94, dated 28/07/05. Margina could not tell them the name of the perpetrator.
According to her description of the perpetrator, Nayek Nurul Islam was arrested on 29 July 2005
from police line. In a primary interrogation, he admitted that he took Margina on the
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