<p>Dhaka: The alleged rape of a woman belonging to a minority community three days ago in central Bangladesh’s Cumilla district sparked nationwide outrage on Sunday after a video of the assault went viral.</p>.<p>The main suspect of the alleged rape has been arrested along with several others, police said.</p>.Union min Sukanta Majumdar walks out of Kolkata Police HQ after overnight detention over rape protest.<p>Cumilla district’s police chief Nazir Ahmed Khan said the main accused was arrested in a predawn raid at Dhaka’s Sayedabad area and four others were apprehended for revealing the picture and identity of the woman on social media.</p>.<p>Students of Dhaka University staged marches in the campus condemning the rape while residents of its Jagannath Hall dormitory, dedicated for minority community students, took out processions calling for justice.</p>.<p>Secretary General of former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir demanded exemplary punitive action against the culprits.</p>.<p>The High Court, meanwhile, issued a directive asking authorities to immediately remove the video of the assault that went viral on social media on Saturday.</p>.<p>The two-judge bench also asked the authorities concerned to ensure security of the rape survivor and provide her necessary treatment.</p>.<p>Some media reports suggested the police action came only after the video went viral. According to a report, people in the neighbourhood initially released the culprit after a mass beating and took him to a hospital instead of handing him over to police. The suspect allegedly fled from the hospital.</p>.<p>The reports suggested the woman was visiting her paternal home at Culimma’s Muradnagar sub-district where the accused allegedly broke into the house at night.</p>.<p>Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed, who has served as his mother’s advisor, took to X to express his outrage at the incident.</p>.<p>He blamed the Yunus administration for a rise in incidents of mob attacks, terrorism and rape in the last 11 months.</p>.<p>Bangladesh witnessed incidents of violence against members of minority communities following the fall of the Hasina-led Awami League government in August last year.</p>.<p>Hasina fled to India when her regime was toppled on August 5 last year, as a fallout of a violent street movement led by a platform called Students against Discrimination.</p>.<p>Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, 85, took charge of the interim government three days later.</p>
<p>Dhaka: The alleged rape of a woman belonging to a minority community three days ago in central Bangladesh’s Cumilla district sparked nationwide outrage on Sunday after a video of the assault went viral.</p>.<p>The main suspect of the alleged rape has been arrested along with several others, police said.</p>.Union min Sukanta Majumdar walks out of Kolkata Police HQ after overnight detention over rape protest.<p>Cumilla district’s police chief Nazir Ahmed Khan said the main accused was arrested in a predawn raid at Dhaka’s Sayedabad area and four others were apprehended for revealing the picture and identity of the woman on social media.</p>.<p>Students of Dhaka University staged marches in the campus condemning the rape while residents of its Jagannath Hall dormitory, dedicated for minority community students, took out processions calling for justice.</p>.<p>Secretary General of former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir demanded exemplary punitive action against the culprits.</p>.<p>The High Court, meanwhile, issued a directive asking authorities to immediately remove the video of the assault that went viral on social media on Saturday.</p>.<p>The two-judge bench also asked the authorities concerned to ensure security of the rape survivor and provide her necessary treatment.</p>.<p>Some media reports suggested the police action came only after the video went viral. According to a report, people in the neighbourhood initially released the culprit after a mass beating and took him to a hospital instead of handing him over to police. The suspect allegedly fled from the hospital.</p>.<p>The reports suggested the woman was visiting her paternal home at Culimma’s Muradnagar sub-district where the accused allegedly broke into the house at night.</p>.<p>Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed, who has served as his mother’s advisor, took to X to express his outrage at the incident.</p>.<p>He blamed the Yunus administration for a rise in incidents of mob attacks, terrorism and rape in the last 11 months.</p>.<p>Bangladesh witnessed incidents of violence against members of minority communities following the fall of the Hasina-led Awami League government in August last year.</p>.<p>Hasina fled to India when her regime was toppled on August 5 last year, as a fallout of a violent street movement led by a platform called Students against Discrimination.</p>.<p>Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, 85, took charge of the interim government three days later.</p>