RMG worker killed after ‘rape’ in running bus

A female garment worker was killed after she had been 'raped' on a moving bus in Dhamrai on Friday night, reports UNB.

Police recovered the body of Mamata Begum, 19, daughter of Shahajan Khan, from an abandoned place in Hizlikhola early Saturday and arrested bus driver Firoz alias Sohel, 31, a resident of Pangsha upazila of Rajbari district after conducting a drive. 

Dipak Chandra Saha, officer-in-charge (OC) of Dhamrai police station, said Mamata got into a bus at Kathaliapara to reach Dautia area around 4:30am on Friday.

As Mamata did not return home on Friday night her mother Julekha Begum filed a general diary with Dhamrai police station.

Later police recovered the body of the girl in the morning and sent it to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital morgue for an autopsy, the OC added.

The victim’s brother Alamgir Hossain said bus driver Sohel used to disturb his sister as well as other female workers. “We want highest punishment of the killer,” he added.

Sohel was produced before a court at noon with a remand prayer and a murder case was filed with the police station in this connection, the OC said.

Meanwhile, police recovered the body of another female garment worker from Tenguri in Ashulia on Saturday.