Five people who were arrested over gang rape of a woman on moving bus after pushing her husband off it gave confessional statements before a Gazipur court on Sunday. Gazipur District Judicial Magistrate Court recorded their statement and sent them to jail after they were produced before court seeking remand to interrogate them, said Md Moniruzzaman, officer-in-Charge of Sreepur police station. The arrestees are Md Rakib Molla, 23, from Narayanganj, Sumon Khan, 20, from Netrakona, Md Sajib, 23, from Mymensingh, Md Shahin Mia from Haluaghat upazila, and Md Sumon Hasan, 22, from Khulna. Meanwhile, in forensic test of the rape survivor, primary evidence of rape was found, said Dr ANM Al Mamun, forensic department of Shahid Tajuddin Ahmed Medical Coollege and Hhspital. Read: Benapole press club president gets death threat “For further confirmation her DNA sample will be tested. We suggested conducting an x-ray of her head as she had injuries on forehead,” said the doctor. According to police, the couple hailing from Naogaon reached Gazipur Bhogra Bypass early Saturday by  a bus and got on another bus of Takwa Paribahan heading toward Mawna union in Sreepur upazila. As the bus reached near Chandna intersection on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, three more staff of the bus got on it. When the bus reached near Hotapara bus stand the bus became empty as all the passengers except the couple got down. Read: Schoolgirl raped by 6 in Panchagarh After crossing the bus stand the five transport staff snatched money and mobile phones of the couple and shoved the husband down from the bus after beating him up. They then gang raped the woman until the bus reached Rajendrapur intersection, where they dumped the woman on road and absconded. Later, the woman’s husband filed a case with Sreepur police station. The five accused were arrested and the bus was seized after the case filing conducting a drive, said OC Moniruzzaman. 

A housewife on Monday night was gangraped in Rajshahi’s Bagha Upazila. A group of three miscreants broke into the house at Kaligram village of the upazila and raped her at knifepoint when her husband was away. The victim filed a case against the three individuals at Bagha police station. Police arrested a man named Suruj Malitha in connection with the case. Also read: Out to relieve herself, woman kidnapped & gang raped in Gaibandha According to the case statement, it was raining at around 12 am when Suruj (32), son of Ruban Malitha, Jhantu (33), son of Elahi Box and Rujdar (35), son of Gulumal of the same village, broke into the house and raped her. Victim’s husband was away from home and her 2 children were threatened to be killed, the statement further reads. Local councilor Saiful Islam said a case had been filed against the accused a few years back for allegedly raping another woman in the village. “They are also involved in the drug trade as well,” he said. Also read: Housewife ‘gang-raped’ in Patuakhali Bagha Police Station OC Nazrul Islam said the victim was sent to the OCC of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital for a physical examination. One of the arrested was sent to jail through the court. The operation to arrest the other accused was being continued, he added.