Our Correspondent :
A bus driver of Fahad and Maisha Paribahan and his assistant have confessed to the attempted rape of a young girl on a moving bus, according to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Bangladesh Police.
Additional Deputy Inspector General Hasib Aziz revealed the information in a press conference held at the CID headquarters in Dhaka’s Malibagh on Sunday afternoon.
He said: “We arrested driver Shahid Mia, 25, from Sunamganj. Earlier, PBI arrested Rashid, Shahid’s assistant. Rashid gave a confessional statement in court and it matched the initial information obtained from Shahid.”
Describing the events of December 26, the police official said: “A girl who studies in 11th grade was going to Derai from Lamakazi in Sylhet. She was supposed to get off the Sunamganj-bound bus 16km before its final destination.
“All the other passengers got off the bus before reaching there and, seeing that there were no passengers on the bus except the girl, the driver asked his assistant to steer the bus and attempted to rape the girl on the moving vehicle,” he added.
The additional DIG continued: “The driver grabbed the girl by her hair and took her towards the back end of the bus. When the young woman tried to save herself by putting her bag in front of her, driver Shahid yanked the bag and ripped it up.
“She then somehow managed to fend him off, sprinted to the front end, jumped off the bus through the door and started screaming. The perpetrators sped away when locals arrived. The girl was taken to the upazila health complex and later shifted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College.”
They had intended to gang-rape the girl, said the police official.
The girl’s father filed a case under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act with Derai police station the night of the incident, against three people – the bus driver, his assistant and the bus conductor.
Police are still trying to arrest Abu Bakkar, the conductor of the bus.
