A 44-year-old woman passenger was allegedly raped in the canteen of the Dhaka-Kurigram-bound intercity Kurigram Express on Sunday night.
Police have arrested a canteen worker, Abu Bakkar Siddique, 22, in connection with the incident.
The woman filed a case with Santahar Railway Police Station on Monday night, accusing Abu Bakkar of rape and two unidentified railway police personnel responsible for train security of sexual harassment.
Railway police arrested Abu Bakkar and produced him before a court on Tuesday. The court sent him to jail. He is a resident of Abdulpur in Natore.
According to the case statement and railway police, the woman, from Sirajganj Sadar, boarded the Kurigram Express at Airport Railway Station in Dhaka on Sunday night.
She initially planned to get off at Sirajganj but later decided to travel to Parbatipur in Dinajpur to visit a relative.
After the train passed Sirajganj station, the two police personnel allegedly took her to the canteen on the pretext of conducting a body search. She alleged that they sexually harassed her there, while canteen worker Abu Bakkar allegedly raped her.
The woman later called the national emergency service 999 to report the incident. A team of Santahar Railway Police subsequently arrested Abu Bakkar from the moving train.
Santahar Railway Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Dulal Uddin confirmed the incident, saying the two unidentified police personnel had also been named in the case.
“The alleged involvement of the two police personnel is being investigated,” he said, adding that the woman had undergone a medical examination at Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital in Bogura.
The OC said the case accuses Abu Bakkar of rape and the two unidentified railway police personnel of sexual harassment.
“Abu Bakkar has been sent to jail through the court. The allegations against the two police personnel are being investigated,” he said.
