UNB, Narayanganj :
A truck driver and his helper reportedly confessed before separate courts here on Sunday to raping a teenage girl in their running vehicle.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Akhtaruzzaman recorded the statement of driver Mehedi Hasan while Senior Judicial Magistrate Aftabuzzaman that of helper Sohan alias Tuhin under section 164.
Later, they were sent to jail, said court police inspector Sohel Alam.
Earlier, on Thursday, a court placed the duo on a four-day remand in a case with Siddhirganj Police Station over the rape of the girl in the running truck.
Police said Mehedi and Sohan picked up the 15-year-old girl, who left her house following a brawl with her mother, from Chourasta in Gazipur city around 8 pm while she was standing there alone promising that they would reach her home.
However, the duo raped the girl in the running truck throughout the night threatening to throw her to death from the lorry.
As the truck stopped in front of the main gate of ACI Pharmaceuticals at Panirkall in Siddhirganj upazila here on Wednesday morning, the victim started screaming from inside the truck.
Later, locals rushed in and rescued her. However, the driver and helper managed to flee the scene.
Later, police arrested Mehedi from in front of Adamjee Sonamia Market in Siddhirganj on Wednesday while Sohan from Godanail of the upazila on Thursday morning.
