Raja Mia, who was detained in Tangail in relation to a robbery and rape that occurred inside of a moving bus, has been placed on a five-day remand.

Police brought him before the court with a seven-day remand plea on Thursday, 4 August, and Tangail Senior Judicial Magistrate Badal Kumar Chand granted the remand after a hearing, according to Public Prosecutor Tanveer Ahmed.

Detective cops detained Raja Mia earlier on Thursday morning at his residence in the city’s Deola district.

Raja Mia reportedly confessed to his role in the robbery and named his accomplices, according to investigating officer Murad Hossain.

From the arrestee’s possession, police found two sticks, a pair of scissors, and three stolen passenger cell phones.

A bus driver himself, Raja Mia is the son of Harun ur Rashid of Balla village in Kalihati upazila.

Raja Mia drove the vehicle himself throughout the heist after getting control of it from the Eagle Transport driver.

The rape victim claimed that the thieves bound the wrists and faces of the passengers one by one while blindfolding them. Even the kids were similarly restrained.

“After looting everyone, they brutally tortured the female passengers. The woman sitting next to the robber was raped four times,” she added.

“We could not do anything because we were blindfolded and our hands and faces were tied,” said the woman.

Another passenger, Shilpi Begum of Taragunia village of Daulatpur police station area, said, “I was taking my daughter to Dhaka for treatment. Our eyes, mouths and hands were tied up by the robbers who looted us. My husband was stabbed in the hand with a knife. They took Tk30,000 from us.”

Tangail Senior Judicial Magistrate Rumi Khatun recorded the rape victim’s statement.

She was produced in the court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Badal Kumar Chander who ordered her to be sent to Tangail General Hospital for treatment.

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The terrifying occurrence happened early on Wednesday in Tangail’s Madhupur upazila’s Raktipara area, which is off the Dhaka-Tangail Highway.

The bus of “Eagle Paribahan,” with 24-25 passengers on board, was on its way to Chattogram from Kushtia late on Tuesday night when the crime occurred.

A group of robbers boarded the bus around 11pm on Tuesday after it resumed its journey following a stopover at a hotel in Sirajganj district.

And some 5-10 minutes later, four more got into the bus, police said.

“Around 12am on Wednesday when the bus took the busy Dhaka-Tangail Highway in the Natiapara area, the robbers whiffed out guns, hijacked the vehicle and forced the driver to drive towards Madhupur upazila,” the SP said.

On a desolate stretch, the armed gang robbed the commuters of cash, jewellery and mobile phones.

“The robbers then blindfolded the passengers and raped the woman commuter on board,” the SP said.

The ordeal continued for over three hours till the seven criminals forced them to get off the bus and drove the heavy vehicle towards Raktipara’s Jam-e-Mosque, where they abandoned it and fled with the loot, police said.

“The victim woman is being treated at Tangail General Hospital, and her initial medical test showed evidence of rape,” the police official added.

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