Bangladesh
Gang Rape Police arrest six for gang-raping 21-year-old woman inside moving bus in Chittagong
Dhaka, June 26: Police have arrested six people, including a bus driver and his helper, for allegedly gang-raping a 21-year-old woman inside a moving bus in Mirsarai upazila of Chittagong last week, reports said.
The arrests were made from different parts of the district, police said on Saturday. They have been identified as Ashraful Islam, 23, Shahadat Hossain, 19, Nizamuddin Rana, 20, Belal Hossain, 23, Mohammad Ismail, 31, and Mohammad Sagar Hossain, 22.
The incident took place between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, a Dhaka Tribune report said quoting Mirsarai police station OC Mujibul Rahman.
"In her complaint to the police, the woman claimed that her male acquaintances took her out on Wednesday evening. The duo had boarded the bus from their native Sitakunda upazila," the report said.
"However, when the bus reached the Hafiz Jute Mill area, the driver and the helper forced all passengers, except the woman and her acquaintance, to get off the vehicle. Subsequently, the duo, along with four others, took turns to rape her," it added.
According to the complainant, she was later forcibly taken to a residential building in the upazila and sexually assaulted over the next 24 hours.
Based on her complaint, the police nabbed the six men from different parts of Sitakunda and Mirsarai upazilas, and Chittagong city on Friday night.
The woman, identified as a readymade garment factory worker, was sent to Chittagong Medical College Hospital for a medical examination.
The district's Superintendent of Police SM Rashidul Haque was quoted by the news outlet as saying, “We have taken the case seriously and six people have been arrested in this connection."
