Pushing woman off running bus in Keraniganj: driver, assistant arrested
Rab arrested a bus driver and his assistant on charge of pushing a woman with speech impairment off a running bus in Rohitpur Bazar of Keraniganj yesterday.
The arrestees are: Md Sabuz (25), driver of N Mullick Paribahan, and his assistant Md Nahid (19).
They were arrested from South Keraniganj area around 2:00am, Maj Shahrier Ziaur Rahman, second-in-command of Rab-10, told The Daily Star. Rab will hold a briefing on this later in the day.
The woman was pushed off the running bus around 9:30am yesterday after she supposedly failed to pay bus fare.
A video of the incident posted on social media shows a woman in burkha getting pushed off an 'N Mullick Paribahan' bus. She was seen groaning in pain, lying on the ground. Bystanders helped her get up.
When they asked the woman why she was pushed off, she wrote on tiles that she got on 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.
On that day, they pushed her off because she couldn't pay the fare, locals quoted her as writing.
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