Dhaka: The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Sunday pressed charges against two people for violating an indigenous woman in a microbus in Dhaka on 21 May.

Ajmila Nasrin, ASP of Rab-1 and investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge-sheet to the General Recording Officer (GRO) of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in the afternoon which will be placed before the court on 25 August.

The charge-sheeted accused are M Ashraf Khan and Zahidul Islam alias Lavlu.

On 28 May, a court placed the two youths on a 10-day police custody each.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Tushar alias Ashraf and microbus driver Lavlu for their suspected link with the rape in the capital on 27 May.

The law enforcers also seized the microbus used by the sex offenders according to their statement.

The 22-year-old indigenous woman filed the gang-rape case against five unidentified miscreants with Bhatara Police Station alleging that she was raped by miscreants in a moving microbus in the city on

22 May.

According to the case statement, the Garo woman was dragged into the microbus by the miscreants from Kuril Bus Stand at about 9:30pm on the night of 21 May as she was waiting for transport to return home after the day's work at a showroom in the area.

Later, the miscreants threw her out of the bus at Jasimuddin Road in Uttara in the midnight when local people rescued her and took her to a local hospital.

On 4 June, the two accused made their deposition before the court.