Woman forced out of home for bringing a baby girl to the world
A 23-year-old woman has been forced to leave her husband's house for giving birth to a baby girl in Gaibandha's Sadullapur upazila.
The incident took place at Ghoramara village on Thursday. The woman gave birth to the baby at a clinic in Rangpur on March 8. Earlier, she along with her relative went to the clinic.
The woman said she became pregnant two months after she married Raja Mia, 32, manager of a restaurant in Dhaka on June 10 last year. About four months later, when her husband came to know through a medical test that she was expecting a baby girl, her relation with Raja worsened.
She added that "On Thursday noon, when I came to my husband's house in the village with the newborn from the clinic, the house was found locked from inside. At that time, my father-in-law Md Mohobbor Ali told me that as Raja divorced me, he can't give me shelter in this house."
Informed by her, police rushed to the spot and did not find any family members of her in-laws in the house, she said, adding that she later went back to her father's house in Sundarganj upazila following suggestion of the law enforcers.
Her maternal uncle then went to Sadullapur Police Station to file a complaint against Raja but police did not accept the complaint, said the woman.
Masud Rana, officer-in-charge of the police station, said no one came from the woman's family to the police station to file a complaint in this regard.
Contacted, the woman's mother-in-law Asma Begum told this reporter over phone that to look after her ailing daughter, she has been staying in Dhaka since February 21. Her husband was not in their village home on Thursday. He left home for collecting money for her daughter's treatment.
Raja Mia also told the reporter over phone that he divorced his wife through court process in July 2020 as she is a woman of bad character. He sent a divorce letter to her on March 8 this year.
"If the DNA test proves that I'm the biological father of the baby girl, I will accept her but not the woman," said Raja.
The woman said she is yet to get any divorce letter.
If someone divorces his wife during pregnancy that will not be effective, said Noresh Mukharjee, a special public prosecutor of Bogura court.
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