Culprit's father demands due punishment
Yakub Ali, father of Bulbul Ahmed who badly damaged an eye of his wife Jinnat Fatema Runa on Sunday night, has demanded exemplary punishment for the crime.
"It is hard for me to believe that my son would commit such a heinous crime. I want his due punishment," Yakub told this correspondent yesterday.
"I am dead against dowry but it is an irony of my fate that I failed to prevent my son from his constant pursuit of dowry and torturing his wife," he added.
Since marriage four years ago, Bulbul used to torture Runa for dowry and Bulbul was given Tk 2 lakh in phases, family sources said.
Recently, he escalated his pressure on his wife Runa, 23, mother of a three-year-old boy, but Runa, daughter of Abdur Razzaq of Ranida village in Bhaluka upazila under Mymensingh district, declined to ask her parents for more money.
Razzaq, retired headmaster of a high school, is ailing and bedridden now, said family sources.
On Sunday night, Bulbul demanded 1 lakh from his wife.
As Runa expressed her failure to meet the demand, Bulbul, 35, got furious and tried to gouge out Runa's right eye with a spoon, said family members and police.
After the incident, neighbours took her to Bhaluka Upazila Health Complex and then shifted her to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH).
The eye suffered vitreous haemorrhage and serious damage to its retina, said Mohammad Habibullah, assistant professor of the eye department of MMCH.
The eye bled profusely and after an investigation, doctors at MMCH referred her to the National Institute of Ophthalmology in Dhaka yesterday, where she is undergoing treatment now.
Runa's elder brother Khalilur Rahman lodged a case with Bhaluka Police Station, accusing four people -- Bulbul, his elder sister Falani Begum, 45, her husband Abdus Sattar, 50, and brother-in-law Sabur Munshi, 45.
Police arrested Bulbul and produced him before a Mymensingh court that sent him to jail on Monday.
The three other accused are yet to be arrested.
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