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Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Friday said that dispute between two brothers was behind the heinous rape of a woman in Cumilla's Muradnagar upazila and circulation of the incident's video.
RAB-11 Commanding Officer (CO) HM Sazzad Hossain disclosed the matter at a press briefing at the RAB media centre on Friday.
On July 3, RAB arrested Md Shah Poran, 28, from the Kabir Bazar area under Burichang Police Station. Shah Poran is the younger brother of the prime accused, Fazar Ali.
During interrogation, the arrested suspect confessed to planning the attack and encouraging others to record and spread the video as part of a personal vendetta against his elder brother.
In order to take revenge on his elder brother Fazar Ali due to a previous enmity, he, with the help of other accused, tortured, molested the victim along with Fazar Ali and recorded obscene videos and disseminated them on social media, RAB cited the arrestee, Shah Poran, in the briefing.
After the incident, Shah Poran and his accomplices went into hiding, but were tracked down through technological surveillance and intelligence efforts, said RAB.
Two months before the incident, due to a dispute between the two brothers, a verbal altercation and physical confrontation took place. As a result, during a village arbitration held publicly, the elder brother Fazar Ali slapped his younger brother Shah Poran in front of everyone. Subsequently, Shah Poran began looking for an opportunity to take revenge on his elder brother.
Fazar Ali and his younger brother Shah Poran had been harassing the victim for a long time. On the night of June 26, when the female victim was staying at her parents' home in Bahechar village, Fazar Ali entered her bedroom at around 11:30 PM while her parents were at a nearby house to attend a fair.
At approximately 11:50 PM, a group of 8-10 men, including Shah Poran and others from the same village, forcefully entered the house, physically assaulted the woman, and recorded explicit video of rape, which was later spread on social media.
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