[Dhaka Tribune] A Dhaka court yesterday sent Md Kamal Hossain, the lone arrestee in Pahela Baishakh sexual assault incident, to jail after he refused to give confessional statement in the case.Metropolitan Magistrate Md Nuru Miah passed the order.
Earlier, DB Sub-Inspector Dipak Kumar Das, also investigation officer (IO), produced Kamal before the magistrate with a petition to record his confessional statement.
In the petition the IO mentioned that Kamal admitted to them that he was involved in the incident and he would give a confessional statement to a magistrate in this connection.
Later, following Kamal's refusal, the magistrate ordered to send him to jail. Earlier on Thursday another metropolitan magistrate placed him on a two-day remand for interrogation.
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the first accused from a house of the capital's Chawkbazar over the sexual assaults on Wednesday.
The arrest of Kamal, 35, came just into a little over a month after the Sherlocks submitted the final report in the case to a Dhaka court, saying they had failed to identify or arrest anyone in connection with the incident.
The latest development has now prompted them to seek revival of the case. IO Dipak, on Thursday submitted an application to the Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-3 seeking revival of the sexual assault case.
The court fixed February 23 to pass an order on the appeal.
On April 14, last year, gangs of unruly youths swooped on around five to seven women and sexually harassed them when thousands of people joined the Pohela Boishakh celebrations in the DU's TSC and Suhrawardy Udyan gate areas.
The joyous celebration of the Bangalee's biggest festival was tainted by the incidents that sparked a wave of protest throughout the country with people from all quarters.
Later, police filed a case with Shahbagh cop shoppe over the incidents on April 17.
Although the police initially denied the incident, they later released photos of eight suspected offenders and announced bounty for providing information about them.