A female hawker has been raped reportedly by the driver and assistant on a moving bus in Gazipur.
The incident took place in the early hours of Sunday.
Police arrested the driver Saddam Hossain and seized the bus of “Taqwa Paribahan” when it reached Memberbari in Gazipur on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway. Assistant Sharif Hossain managed to flee.
Growing suspicious of the movement of the bus and hearing the screams of the victim, a police patrol team halted the vehicle and rescued her, Officer-in-Charge of Joydebpur police station Jabedul Islam said.
The victim has filed a case with Joydebpur police station.
According to the case statement, the female hawker, who sells chocolate on buses, boarded the vehicle from Chandra of Gazipur’s Kaliakoir at around 9pm on Saturday.
Saddam and Sharif kept the bus moving without dropping off the victim at her destination. At one stage, they raped the woman repeatedly on the moving bus.