Tormented by rapist
A speech-impaired girl was raped by a neighbour in Brahmanbaria Sadar upazila last year.
Though the trial of the rape case is still ongoing, family members of the victim are now living in fear of arrest as the family of the rape accused have recently filed two cases against them.
The rape accused, Bachchu Mia, 55, was released on bail by Brahmanbaria Women and Children Repression Tribunal on November 27.
He was arrested and later sent to jail days after he had raped the girl on September 29, 2018.
Bacchu’s son Billal Mia filed the first case with the Brahmanbaria Executive Magistrate (Sadar) Court on December 1, accusing five members of the girl’s family, including her parents and siblings.
According to the case statement, family members of the girl wielding sharp weapons attacked Bacchu and his brother Bahar Mia “intending to kill or injure them” around 8:00pm on November 29.
According to the second case, which was lodged by Bahar with the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (Sadar) in Brahmanbaria on December 5, the girl’s family members invaded Bahar’s house on November 30 and looted gold jewellery worth Tk45,000.
All the accused in the two cases are same.
Shafiq Babu, sub-inspector of Brahmanbaria Sadar Model Police Station, was given the charge of investigating the second case.
Contacted, he told this correspondent that he had not found any evidence of an attack on Bahar’s family.
All the allegations were fabricated to harass an innocent family, the SI said.
Talking to The Daily Star, the girl’s father, who is the prime accused in both the cases, said all the allegations made in the two cases were false as he had not visited his village home in the last one and a half months.
The poor father, who runs a tea-stall at Dhaka University’s TSC, said his family can’t attack someone as the two male members -- he and his son -- were in Dhaka at the time mentioned in the cases.
He also said Bacchu’s family members have been threatening them with dire consequences if they did not withdraw the case filed over his daughter’s rape.
Alamgir Hossain, additional superintendent of police in Brahmanbaria, said the fact was known to them and that no scope would be given to harass the victim’s family.
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