Shamim Al Mamun, Tangail: Police have announced that the supervisor of the bus in which a handicapped girl was raped has been arrested.
Authorties were able to capture Ershad, 40, yesterday morning following the statement from bus helper Nazmul. He was later presented before the Tangail Judicial Magistrate Court for a 5-day remand appeal. His remand is scheduled to be heard today.
Ershad will be tried under the Women and Children Repression Law, added police officials.
On Thursday midnight, a police patrol received information from a night guard about a woman’s cries coming from inside a bus parked at the bus stand near the east end of the Bangabandhu Bridge in Tangail. On receiving the information, police quickly rescued the handicapped girl. They later informed that she had been victim of rape.
Police then captured bus helper Nazmul and driver Alam Khandakar while supervisor Ershad was still on the run.