Channel 24 staff sexually assaulted, one detained

A staff member of Channel 24 was assaulted yesterday while waiting for a bus in Amtoli area of the capital's Mohakhali.

The victim said that a youth approached her, and tried to force himself on her after she “declined a sexually offensive offer”. “He touched me all over and started beating me up when I tried to stop him,” she added. The man was later identified as Md Alamgir, 24.

A senior assistant commissioner of DMP's Gulshan division, Taposh Kumar Das, was passing by at the time, and heard the girl's cry for help.

The police officer rushed to the spot. “I saw the man beating her with a stick. The woman was bleeding from her mouth when I got there. When I approached, the accused tried to run away,” Taposh said, adding that later he caught Alamgir with the help of his personal security guard and car driver.

Alamgir was handed over to Banani Police Station. His younger brother was also detained, but later he was freed as police didn't find any involvement. The woman was sent to Kurmitola General Hospital for treatment.

Later the victim filed a case with Banani Police Station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.