A man has been detained over physically assaulting a woman over her outfit in Narsingdi railway station
The man was identified as Ismail Hossain.
Ismail was arrested in Narsingdi railway station area around 8pm on Friday, confirmed Narsingdi district Detective Branch (DB) of police Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abul Basar.
OC Abul said: “Sadar police and DB conducted a joint operation in the railway station area at night to investigate the incident.
“Ismail was arrested after scrutinizing the footage CCTV footage of the incident. The details of the incident will be known after interrogating him,” OC Abul added.
On Wednesday, A young woman was physically assaulted over her outfit at Narsingdi railway station on her way to Dhaka from Narsingdi.
According to witnesses, the woman and her two friends were waiting for the Dhaka Mail train leaving Chittagong. At that time, a middle-aged woman standing at the station saw them and made offensive remarks.
When the young woman protested, an argument started between the two. At one point, the older woman went to assault the young woman and her two friends protested.
Then some men standing at the station got into another argument with the two boys and went to beat them up.
Later, the young woman along with her friends went to the station master's room for safety.
Meanwhile, a video of the incident went viral on social media on Thursday morning, sparking criticism.
Later, law enforcement agencies started investigating the matter.
