UNB :
A 21-year-old woman was allegedly held hostage and raped by six men on a moving bus in Mirsarai upazila of Chattogram last week.
All the six men, including the bus driver and his helper, have been arrested from different parts of the district, police said on Saturday.
The crime occurred in the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday morning, said Mirsarai police station OC Mujibul Rahman.
In her complaint to the police, the woman claimed that her male acquaintances took her out on Wednesday evening. The duo had boarded the bus from their native Sitakunda upazila.
However, when the bus reached the Hafiz Jute Mill area, the driver and the helper forced all passengers, except the woman and her acquaintance, to get off the vehicle. Subsequently, the duo, along with four others, took turns to rape her.
The woman’s ordeal did not end there. She was forcibly taken to a house in the upazila later and raped over the next 24 hours, according to the complaint.
Following her complaint, police started a case and arrested the six men from different parts of Sitakunda and Mirsarai upazilas, and Chittagong city on Friday night.
Police identified the arrestees as Ashraful Islam, 23, Shahadat Hossain, 19, Nizamuddin Rana, 20, Belal Hossain, 23, Mohammad Ismail, 31, and Mohammad Sagar Hossain, 22.
The woman, a readymade garment factory worker, was sent to Chittagong Medical College Hospital for a medical examination.
The district’s Superintendent of Police SM Rashidul Haque said, “We have taken the case seriously and six people have been arrested in this connection.”
