{"id":4937,"date":"2025-11-26T23:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:27:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:27:47","slug":"victim-arrested-as-yunus-aide-ali-riaz-rocked-by-rape-on-marriage-promise-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrepublicbd.com\/?p=4937","title":{"rendered":"Victim arrested as Yunus aide Ali Riaz rocked by rape-on-marriage-promise scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a chilling display of power overriding justice, Atandra Ripa\u2014the woman who accused Professor Ali Riaz, Special Assistant to Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, of rape under false promise of marriage and forced abortion\u2014was arrested within days of releasing a tearful video testimony. The alleged rapist remains untouched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources close to the case confirm that Dilruba Sharmin, a close associate of Professor Riaz, has privately admitted to escorting the victim to Gonoshasthya Hospital in Dhanmondi, where the abortion was allegedly carried out under duress and political threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ripa\u2019s video statement, now viral with millions of views, details how the relationship began in 2023 through Facebook and poetry discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe lied that he had a vasectomy, so protection was not needed. I trusted him,\u201d she said, sobbing. When pregnancy was confirmed, Riaz allegedly vanished. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A poet, Ripa, says that she was later coerced into terminating the pregnancy with warnings that \u201cAli Riaz would be in danger\u201d if she spoke out.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Instead of investigation, police pressure mounted. Ripa went into hiding wearing a burqa, posting desperate pleas: \u201cThey are threatening to disappear me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July Charter\u2019s Poison Pill: How Ali Riaz is ripping Bangladesh apart<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discourse of Ali Riaz: Radical Islamic bias, historical distortion, political subversion<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her worst fears materialised\u2014she was arrested; Professor Riaz was not even questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 #MeToo Allegation Resurfaces<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not the first time Ali Riaz has faced such accusations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In December 2018, Canada-based former Dhaka University student Samiha Tutli<\/a> publicly accused Riaz of attempted sexual assault during a visit to Rajshahi. She described how the \u201cdistinguished professor\u201d she admired as a poet turned predatory the moment they met in private. Tutli fled in terror. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riaz denied ever knowing her or staying anywhere except a hotel, producing witnesses who backed his version. No investigation followed then either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Bedroom to Constitution: The Real Danger of Untouchable Power<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor Ali Riaz is no ordinary academic. As Vice-Chairman of the National Consensus Commission and head of the Constitution Reform Commission, he wields unprecedented influence over Bangladesh\u2019s political future. Critics\u2014including senior journalists, freedom fighters, and major political parties\u2014now openly brand him a \u201cdeep state agent\u201d executing foreign-prescribed designs to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Rewrite the 1972 Constitution and dilute its secular foundation <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Normalise anti-liberation forces and downplay the 1971 genocide in official narratives <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Push the controversial July Charter while ignoring dissent from BNP, Jamaat, and others <\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Create deliberate divisions that threaten post-2024 national unity <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior journalist Masood Kamal warns: \u201cAli Riaz has messed up everything. His project is to impose a new constitution that sidelines the spirit of 1971. This man was never known as a constitutional expert\u2014yet he controls our destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Rapist Allegedly Sits at the Heart of Power<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Netizens are enraged, with one Facebook user saying: \u201cFirst they silence victims with threats, then jail them, while the perpetrator drafts the nation\u2019s future. This is the real face of the Yunus regime\u2019s justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Bangladesh hurtles toward elections and constitutional upheaval, one question burns brighter than ever: If a woman can be jailed for accusing the second-most powerful man in the interim government of rape, what hope remains for the rule of law\u2014or for the millions who believed August 2024 heralded a new era of accountability?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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