DHAKA, Feb 11, 2021 (BSS) – A court here today set March 2 for holding
hearing on charge framing against Tanvir Iftekhar Dihan, an accused in a case
filled over raping and subsequently murdering a schoolgirl in capital’s
Kalabagan area.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Begum Yasmin Ara set the afresh date for the
hearing as Inspector of Kalabagan police station AFM Asaduzzaman could not
submit the probe report today.
On January 8, Dihan pleaded not guilty in the court of Dhaka Metropolitan
Magistrate Mamunur Rashid and gave a confessional statement over the rape-
murder incident.
Father of the victim, 17, an O-level student of Mastermind School in city,
filed the case with Kalabagan police station.
According to the case documents, Dihan called and took the girl to his
Lake Circus Road flat and raped her there on January 7. As the girl fell sick
due to rape, Dihan along with his friends took her to nearby Anwar Khan
Modern Hospital, where the attending doctors declared her dead.
Being informed by the hospital authorities, police detained Dihan along
with his three friends.