More than 17,000 rape cases have been filed in last four years

About 17, 289 women and child rape cases have been filed from January 2014 to December, 2017. The total number of victim is 17,289; has stated State Minister Assaduzzaman Khan Kamal. Among all these 3,430 case proceedings have reached the end.

On the other side, 17 women were either gang raped or raped inside public transports while four other women were sexually harassed across the country in the last 13 months reported by Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity.

The list has been prepared from the media reports. The law enforcers have arrested 55 persons in total.

Source : bdnews24 and Daily Star