The Savar police yesterday arrested a bus driver and his assistant on the charge of attempting to rape a female garment worker in the moving vehicle on the Dhaka-Aricha highway.
The driver, Shamim Hosen, 20, of Sherpur district, and his assistant Hanif Miah, 25, of Sirajganj district, were detained near Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre (BPATC).
Police said the bus with all its windows shut was moving so slowly on the empty highway that it raised suspicion in Md Mosi-uddowla Reza, senior assistant superintendent of police (ASP) of Savar, who happened to be passing by. The police car chased down the bus near BPATC around 5:45am but one of the three attackers fled.
The victim took the bus, when the driver and two assistants were on board, at Savar bus stand around 5:30am, police said, quoting the woman, 22, who was heading for her workplace at Savar EPZ. The bus zoomed off the moment she got in.
The attackers beat the victim with scrap wood inflicting some injuries on her leg, hands, and body. But she reached home safely after filing a case with Savar Police Station.
-With The Daily Star input
