Shawdesh Desk:

Officer-in-Charge of Paltan Police Station Mahmudul Haque has been suspended for allegedly raping a female job-seeker on the pretext of marriage.

Police headquarters’ Assistant Inspector General (media) Sohel Rana confirmed the news.

He also informed that a departmental case will be filed against Mahmudul Haque soon.

Earlier, the Police Headquarters said it found ‘some truth’ in the allegations made by the victim in August after conducting a probe.

The woman, who is currently working in a bank, alleged that Mahmudul had asked her to come to Dhaka from Naogaon by promising her a job in 2017.

He later put her up at a hotel and raped her after ‘spiking her food with narcotic substances’.

The OC later made romantic advances towards her with the promise of marriage before violating her on several occassions, the woman alleged.

The alleged victim wrote that she became pregnant after a while but Mahmudul forced her to get an abortion.

When pressured to keep his promise of marriage to her, he cut off contact with the woman in April this year.