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Faridpur rape victim underage

Confirms medical test

Our Correspondent, Faridpur
The age assertion test of the gang rape victim of Faridpur has found that the victim is aged between 15 and 16, meaning the girl was raped even if she gave her consent.
The findings come to much relief to the victim's family as they fear that they local police seems to believe that the incident isn't exactly a rape case as the girl knew the perpetrators and also was a willing participant.
Following filing of the case, the then Superintendent of Faridpur Police Mizanur Rahman told The Daily Star that the video as seen in the marketed CD suggests the girl was not raped
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but rather that she had given her consent in the matter.
Dr Salma Shahnewaz Parveen of Faridpur Medical College Hospital conducted the age assertion test.
Legal experts said the age now established proves the victim is a minor and as per the law1 she was 'raped'. Advocate Samsun Nahar Nayeem, a project lawyer of Bangladesh Jatiya Mohila Ainjibi Samity in Faridpur confirmed this.
"Even if a girl under 18 years of age gives her consent to such an act, the act will still be considered as rape according to law because of her being a minor. We will fight with our legal support for the victim," she told The Daily Star.
Meanwhile the forensic report has concluded that there is no sign of forceful rape. Dr Khabirul Islam of Forensic department in Faridpur Medical College Hospital conducted the test.
Three weeks into the filing of the case, police are yet to arrest any of the FIR named accused. They are also yet to seize any CDs of the footage.
The victim is a student of class VI and filed the case with a Faridpur court on August 11.
The men videotaped the gang rape with a cellphone, made video CDs of the footage
and sold them through com-puter shops in Charbhodrason. They also sold the footage, transferring it to mobile handsets of buyers through bluetooth connections.
Azimuddin, OC of Charbhodrashon Police Station and also the investigation officer of the case, claimed that they are trying to arrest the accused, but yet to find anyone of them.
Police arrested three suspects, but locals have begun to allege that the three were arrested in order to shield the real culprits.
Among the three suspects, Tohrul Kazi, a brother-in-law of one of the accused Tushar Khan was visiting Tushar 's house when police arrested him. Another arrestee Masud Khan is the elder brother of prime accused Kalam Khan.
Locals said Masud Khan is a Saudi expatriate and came to Bangladesh 16 days after the incident. Locals also have objections about the arrest of another suspect Shourav who was picked up by the police on suspicion of having edited the footage of the rape.
Locals allege that the video footage had been badly edited and Shourav, who developed software for foreign companies, is unlikely to have done such a layman's job.