1 held in capital over sexual harassment of Jagannath univ student
Police yesterday arrested one person in a case filed over sexually harassment of a female student of Jagannath University (JnU) inside a running bus at Taltola Bus Stand area in the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar on March 8.
"Police yesterday arrested one Tarek Aziz Naim at Paschim Manipur in Mirpur around 3am," Md Abul Kalam Azad, inspector (investigation) of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station, told The Daily Star.
"The accused primarily confessed he had sexually harassed the girl," he said.
Tarek was produced before the court with a five-day remand prayer yesterday. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shahidul Islam directed police to interrogate Tarek at the jail gate for one day, within three working days.
The victim filed the case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station against one unnamed person under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act on March 9.
According to the case statement, the JnU student on March 8 boarded a bus of Mirpur Link Ltd to reach her Shewrapara residence from Nilkhet intersection around 9:20pm.
When the bus reached Taltola Bus Stand in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar around 10pm, a passenger sexually harassed her.
Hearing her scream, other passengers asked the driver to stop the bus. As the vehicle stopped, the passengers tried to catch the man, but he managed to flee, the statement said.
Comments