A Narsingdi court has placed Ismail Mia, an accused in a case filed over the assault of woman in Narsingdi railway station platform for wearing what they claimed "indecent clothes", on a three-day remand.
Judge Mehnaz Siddiqui of Narsingdi's Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate court passed the order after police produced the arrestee before the court with a seven-day remand plea.
Earlier, the railway police officials had filed a case under sections 10 and 30 of the Women and Child Repression Prevention Act at Bhairab Railway Police Station, two women and 10 men.
Railway Police Sub-Inspector (SI) Harunuzzaman Rumel was given the charge of investigating the case. Ismail was detained on Friday night.
Police are continuing their operation to arrest the remaining accused in the case.
Earlier on May 18, a young woman was assaulted and harassed when some women at Narsingdi rail station objected to her wearing what they termed "indecent clothes".
According to witnesses, two young men and a young woman were waiting for a train at Narsingdi railway station platform. The woman was dressed in jeans and sleeveless tops.
An old man passed an indecent comment about the woman's dress and one of the two who was with the victim got locked into an altercation with the man.
By this time, an old woman joined them there and started verbally abusing the woman over her attire. Then a few more men joined them.
At one stage, some unruly youths started beating up the two young men and assaulted the woman.
Later, the woman was forced to run into the station master's room and take shelter.
The incident came to light after a video went viral on Facebook.
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