Rape on Bus
Protest on in Manikganj
Members of different organisations join a token hunger strike organised by Shaheed Rafiq Smriti Pathagar on the premises of Manikganj Press Club yesterday demanding exemplary punishment to the bus driver and helper, who raped a garment worker on the running vehicle on Dhaka-Aricha highway on Thursday.Photo: STAR
Shaheed Rafiq Smriti Pathagar staged a token hunger strike on Manikganj Press Club premises yesterday demanding exemplary punishment to the rapists of the garment worker. Besides, different organisations, including Prothom Alo Bandhusava, Udichi Shilpi Goshthi, Uttaran, and Social Advancement Center (SAC), formed human chains in front of the club in the morning on the same demand. The 18-year-old garment worker was raped on a running bus on Dhaka-Aricha highway alledgedly by the driver and helper of the bus and then thrown out of the vehicle at Manora in Manikganj Sadar Upazila on Thursday afternoon. Law enforcers arrested the driver, Dipu Miah, 30, and his helper Kashem Miah, 28, the same day. They were produced in the Judicial Magistrate's Court-1, Manikganj, on Friday. Following their confessional statements, the court sent them to jail.
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