Members of the Rapid Action Battalion have arrested 10 persons including the mastermind of the gang-rape of a woman and looting of valuables of passengers after hijacking a bus on the Dhaka-Tangail highway on Wednesday, reports The Daily Star.
The mastermind was identified as Ratan Hossain, Khondaker Al Moin, director of Rab's Media Wing, confirmed the development on Sunday night.
Rab will disclose further details at a press conference at its media centre on Monday morning, he said.
Ten to twelve men, with backpacks, got on the bus at Hatikumrul intersection in Sirajganj around midnight on August 3, 2022.
They raped a woman and took away all the passengers' valuables and injured many of the passengers with sharp weapons.
Following the incident, bus passenger Hekmat Ali filed a robbery case and a rape case at Madhupur Police Station.
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