Aug 30 Rape On Bus: Main accused arrested
Police yesterday arrested the key accused in a case filed for raping a mentally challenged woman inside a bus in Tangail on August 30.
The arrestee is the bus driver, Alam Khandakar alias Bishu Miah, 45, of Punorbason area in Bhuapur upazila.
Acting on a tip-off, police detained Alam from a market in the upazila in the morning and produced him before a Tangail court in the afternoon, said Mosharraf Hossain, officer-in-charge of Bangabandhu Bridge East Police Station.
Shamsul Alam, senior judicial magistrate in Tangail, sent Alam to jail after recording his confessional statement under section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
The woman was raped on a bus near Bangabandhu bridge eastern end in Bhuapur upazila on August 30 night.
Mosharraf had at the time said the 28-year-old woman, who could only remember her name and that she was from Kushtia, boarded a local bus at Tangail bus stand around 10:00pm.
When the vehicle reached its last stop in Pathaikandi on the eastern side of Bangabandhu bridge, all the passengers, except the woman, got off the bus.
Around 11:45pm, Alam stopped the bus in the area and raped the woman inside the vehicle, the OC said.
Police arrested the bus helper, Nazmul Hossain, after the incident, but its driver and conductor managed to flee.
The same day, Sub-inspector Nure Alam filed a case with the police station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.
According to the case statement, driver Alam and conductor Ershad raped the woman and Nazmul abetted them.
Nazmul was produced before a Tangail court on the same day where he gave a confessional statement. After recording his statement under section 164 of the CrPC, Senior Judicial Magistrate Md Ashikuzzaman sent him to jail, OC Mosharraf said.
On September 2, police held Ershad from Kalihati upazila and the same court sent him to jail.
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