Speech-impaired woman pushed off bus in Keraniganj

A woman with a speech impairment was pushed off of a running bus at Ruhitpur  Bazar in Dhaka's Keraniganj on Sunday morning, after she supposedly failed to pay bus fare.

A video of the incident that gained traction on social media shows a woman in a burkha getting pushed off of an 'N Mallik' bus. She was seen groaning in  pain, lying on the ground.

Locals helped her get up.

Officer-in-charge of Keraniganj Model Police Station Kazi Moinul Islam told The Daily Star that the incident happened around 9:30am, adding that they have already identified the bus and its driver and his helper.

"I visited the spot and heard the news from locals. We did not find the woman and are still looking for her to get further information," he said.

Law  enforcers confirmed that the woman was speech-impaired. The assistant of the bus driver, Hasan (22), pushed her off. The driver is Suruj Miah (40),  according to Prothom Alo.

When  the locals asked the woman about why she was shoved off the  bus, she wrote on tiles that she got into the bus  from Konakhola. She also wrote she did not have the fare on her, and the same bus service didn't take fare from her previously.

But on that day, they pushed her off because she couldn't pay the fare, locals quoted her as writing.