Teenage girl raped in moving bus

A teenage girl was raped by transport workers on a moving bus in Gazipur on Saturday night while two housewives in Chattogram and Narayanganj were raped after being promised that they would be taken to their husbands.

In Gazipur, the 16-year-old girl was raped after she boarded the Taqwa Paribahan bus to sell chocolates among passengers.

Police arrested the bus driver Saddam Hossain while his helper Sharif Hossain fled the scene.

Joydebpur police officer- in-charge Zabedul Islam said that the girl got on the bus at Kaliakoir bus stand and then the driver and the helper tied her up and raped her.

After police stopped the bus at Memberbari bus stand in Joydebpur, the girl complained about the rape.

The driver was arrested immediately, but his helper managed to flee, reported New Age Gazipur correspondent.

In Chattogram, police arrested four people on Saturday night from at different parts of the district for allegedly raping and beating a housewife.

The arrested were Monir Hossain, 33, Md Masud, 20, Didar, 22 and Sohel, 24.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner (Bayezid Zone) Poritran Talukder said that the victim had been living in the city’s Motijhorna area of Lalkhan Bazar for many years.

Few months earlier, she left the house and went back to her village home in Cumilla. After few days, her husband came back to Chattogram searching for a job.

On Friday, her neighbour Monir, who has been living in Motijhorna area in Chattogram, made a phone call and told her that her husband has been living in Chattogram and promised that he would solve the marital problems they were having. He told the victim to come to Chattogram to meet he husband.

The victim reached Monir’s house in Chattogram on Friday evening. On Saturday morning when Monir’s wife went out of the house for work, Monir threatened the victim with a knife and raped her, according to AC Poritran Talukder.

Khulshi Thana officer-in-Charge Shahinul Islam said that after the incident the victim left the house of Monir. At noon when the victim went to Monir’s house again to collect her burka, few youths forced her to marry Monir, said the OC, adding that when the victim refused to do so they beat her up and snatched away her money.

In the evening the victim went to the police station and filed a complaint about the beating first without mentioning the rape.

Later a case was filed in Khulshi police station against eight people accusing them of raping and torturing the Cumilla woman.

In Narayanganj, police arrested three people for allegedly gang-raping a housewife in Muslimnagar, a local of Fatullah in Narayanganj on Thursday night.

The arrested were identified as Nurul Islam, Ainul Mia, and Raj Ballav.

Fatullah police station OC Aslam Hossain said that the victim was looking for her husband on Thursday night in Muslimnagar area when four miscreants abducted her and gang-raped her in an empty garage.

Police already arrested three on Friday night and a search is on to catch the other accused, he said.

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