Dhaka: A Dhaka on Thursday placed assistant sub-inspector of police Kalimur Rahman on a three-day police custody to interrogate in a case filed in connection with the ‘gang-rape’ of a woman police constable in the capital.

Metropolitan Magistrate Meher Niger Suchana passed the order when inspector M Alam Miah of Detective Branch (DB) of police, also investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced him before the court seeking 10-day police custody to quiz.

A team of detectives from Dhaka arrested Kalimur, ex-husband of the victim, from Kolatoli beach in Cox,s Bazar on Wednesday .

Earlier, on Tuesday, doctors at the Forensic Department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in a test found the evidence of rape of the woman police constable.  

The 24-year-old female police constable of Turag Police Station was gang-raped allegedly by her ex-husband ASI Kalimur Rahman and his five associates in a Khilgaon house in the city on 11 June.

On 13 June, she lodged a complaint with Khilgaon Police Station in this regard. Later, she was admitted to the DMCH. The victim also underwent the forensic test the following day.

The victim's ex-husband had been on the run since the female constable lodged the complaint with the Khilgaon Police Station.