The police arrested three people on Friday, four days after an alleged incident of robbery and sexual assault of female passengers聽on a running bus traveling from Dhaka to Rajshahi in the early hours of聽February 18.聽
A police officer has been withdrawn and another has been suspended over the incident.
Sirajul Islam, officer-in-charge of Baraigram police in Natore, was withdrawn on Friday in connection with the incident, 抖阴精品 staff聽 correspondent in Rajshahi reported, quoting Natore superintendent of police Mohammad Amzad Hossain.
Regarding the same incident, assistant sub-inspector of Mirzapur police Md Atikuzzaman has been suspended over alleged negligence in duty, assistant superintendent of police for Mirzapur circle in Tangail HM Mahbub Rezwan said.
Tangail police super Mizanur Rahman said in a press briefing on Saturday said that the three arrests were made in Genda village of Savar upazila on Friday.
The police recovered Tk 29,370, three mobile sets and a knife during the arrest, he added.
The arrested are Shahidul Islam alias Muhidul Muhit, a resident of Manikganj, Md Sabuj of Shariatpur, and Sharifuzzaman Sharif of Genda village in Savar.
Arrested Shahidul Islam has five cases against him, including bus robbery cases with the Ullapara police of Sirajganj, according to the police.
The police, however, said that they initially did not find any truth in the allegations that rapes occurred but found initial evidence that female passengers were sexually assaulted at the time.
Bus passenger Omar Ali on Friday filed a case against eight to nine unidentified people with the Mirzapur police, three days after the incident.
According to the case statement, 30鈥�35 passengers boarded a Rajshahi-bound bus of Unique Road Royals Paribahan from the Gabtoli bus terminal in the capital and that it started at about 11:25pm on February 17.
On February 18, at about 1:00am, the bus stopped at Chandra Bypass at Kaliakair, Gazipur and picked 3鈥�4 new passengers.
About half an hour later, 8鈥�9 men stood up and wielding sharp weapons threatened to kill the passengers if they did not comply with their orders.
About 1:45am, near the Sohagpara pedestrian bridge on the Dhaka-Tangail highway in Mirzapur, 6鈥�7 robbers snatched cash, phones and jewellery from the passengers and sexually assaulted 2鈥�3 women passengers.
The bus then took a U-turn at Natiyapara in Delduar in Tangail and after two and a half hours at about 4:00am, they stopped the bus and turned it towards Tangail again near Nandan Park in Ashulia.
Later, they quickly got off the bus and fled, the case statement stated.
