TikTok Hridoy, others sued in Dhaka for rape in India

A case has been filed with Hatirjheel police station over the alleged rape and torture of a Bangladeshi woman by fellow countrymen in India.

The survivor's father filed the case on Thursday night, said Additional Deputy Commissioner (media) of the DMP Iftekhaiul Islam.

According to the First Information Report (FIR), the woman was trafficked to India in the name of sending her to Dubai.

Rifadul Islam alias TikTok Hridoy of the Moghbazar area and several others were accused in the case, the ADC said.

Earlier it was reported that police in India’s Bengaluru arrested five Bangladeshis — four men and a woman — for allegedly raping and torturing a woman believed to be from Bangladesh.

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The arrests were made late Thursday evening, hours after Assam police shared visuals from a video circulating on social media to trace the accused, reports the Hindustan Times.

The video showed five people, including a woman, subjecting another woman to physical abuse and torture. Bengaluru city police promptly traced and arrested them.

“As per the information revealed so far, all of them are part of the same group and believed to be from Bangladesh,” Bengaluru police Commissioner Kamal Pant told Hindustan Times.

Due to financial disputes, the culprits brutalized the victim, who is also said to be a Bangladeshi, brought to India for human trafficking, he said.