All to deprive them of rights?
Criminals strangled a woman and hacked her son at Bagutia village in Shailokupa upazila under the district on Monday night.
The day before, the woman Sajeda Khatun, 45, daughter of late Khorshed Alam of Bagutia village, and her son Jinnah Alam, 29, arranged a press conference at Jhenidah Press Club, where they claimed that Rafikul Islam, former chairman of Abaipur union parishad (UP) in Shailakupa upazila, is their husband and father, Jinnah said.
"When Sajeda Khatun and her son Jinnah Alam were sleeping on the veranda of their house at Bagutia village around 11:30pm on Monday, seven to eight armed criminals attacked them. They hacked Jinnah and dragged his mother to a nearby field and strangled her," said Sagir Mia, officer in charge of Shailakupa police station.
On information, police reached the spot at 10:00am yesterday, recovered the body and sent it to Jhenidah Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy. Injured Jinnah was admitted to the hospital.
"Rafikul Islam, former chairman of Abaipur UP, married my mother secretly on January 5, 1983, and I was born to them on June 15, 1984. But he had been refusing our rights since then and in this regard I filed a case with a Jhenidah court in March this year. I and my mother arranged a press conference at Jhenidah Press Club on September 28, claimingour rights as son and wife," Jinnah told this correspondent.
"Aggrieved due to arranging the press conference, men of Rafikul Islam killed my mother and injured me on Monday night," he said.
Contacted, former UP chairman Rafikul Islam denied the allegation and said it is a cooked up story.
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