Father-Daughter Suicide: Main accused arrested

Rab Friday night arrested the main accused for instigating a father and his daughter to commit suicide in Sreepur of Gazipur district.

Rab-1 members acting on a secret tip off raided Islamnagar area near Jahangirnagar University in Savar and arrested Md Faruq, son of Md Fazlul Haque of Kornapur village in Sreepur upazila.

Md Mohiul Islam deputy director of Rab-1 said that after the incident on April 29 Faruq fled to Kapasia upazila in  Gazipur.  When Rab-1 members raided the area he went to the mazar of Atroshi Peer. Later he moved to Islamnagar and started working as a construction worker there.

Additional police super of Gazipur Golam Sabur said, another accused in the case - 35 year old Borhan Uddin - was arrested from Jhajor village under Durgapur upazila in Netrakona district on Friday dawn. The third accused, a member of ward no 1 of Goshinga union parishad under Sreepur, was arrested from Sreepur on April 29. They both have been sent to jail.

Hazrat Ali along with his eigth-year old daughter Ayesha Akhter committed suicide by jumping under a running train near Sreepur Animal Hospital at 9:30am on Saturday. Hazrat took his own life after he failed to get justice for sexual assault of his minor child. He had to face a variety of harassments including threats from neighbors, theft of his cow etc for pursuing the case he filed back in January for the attempted rape of his daughter.

Hazrat Ali lived at Kornapur Sitpara village under Sreepur upazila.

The day after the father and daughter took their own lives, Hazrat's widow Halima Begum filed a case with Kamalapur police station against seven persons including the main accused Md Faruq, Borhan Uddin and Md Abul Hossain.