Tangail: Police on Sunday pressed charges against five accused in a case filed over the murder of Zakia Sultana Rupa, a law student and multinational company employee, after gang rape in a running bus.

Inspector Kaiyum Khan Siddiqui, also investigation officer of the case, submitted a charge-sheet to the Judicial Magistrate Court, said Tangail Police Super Mahbub Alam.

The charge-sheeted accused are bus driver Habibur, its supervisor Safar Ali, and helpers Shamim, Akram and Jahangir.

Rupa, 27, was murdered after gang rape in the running bus while returning to Mymensingh from Bogra on August 25.

Police recovered the bloodstained body from Panchmail area of Madhupur upazila on that night.

Following post-mortem, she was buried at the town central graveyard as unclaimed body. Later, victim's relatives identified her seeing her photograph.

On August 28, police arrested the five accused from Mymensingh over the killing of Rupa.

On August 31, police exhumed the body of Rupa and handed it over to her family for burial in a proper manner.

Rupa, who completed her Masters from Bogra Azizul Haque College, was studying law at Dhaka Ideal Law College. She was working at Unilever Bangladesh Limited at its Sherpur branch.