Bus supervisor on four-day remand

A Tangail court yesterday placed bus supervisor Md Ershad on a four-day remand in a case for raping a mentally challenged woman on the bus at Bangabandhu Bridge's east end in the district on Thursday.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Ashikuzzaman passed the order following a petition filed by Sub-Inspector Kabirul Haque, also investigation officer of the case, seeking his five-day remand on Monday, said Bangladesh Manobadhikar Bastobayon Sangstha district unit General Secretary Ataur Rahman Azad. The organisation is assisting the state in the case.

Police arrested Ershad, 40, from his house at Benukushia village in Kalihati upazila early Monday, he said.

Earlier, police arrested bus helper Nazmul, 22, immediately after the incident. Nazmul in his confessional statement on Friday told the court that the driver and the supervisor raped the woman on the bus and he was standing outside as watcher, he added.

Police, however, could not arrest driver Alam Khandakar, 45, yet.