Victim's father sues 7
The father of Nurunnahar Begum, who is now fighting for life at Aditmari upazila health complex, on Monday night filed a case against seven people on charge of torturing the girl.
The accused are victim's wooer Faruque Ahamed Farhad, 25, his elder brothers Sheikh Farid, 35, Jamal Ahamed, 31, and Badsha Alam, 28, sister Mahfuza Begum, 22, mother Fatema Bewa, 52, and his uncle ex-UP member Rafiz Uddin, 45, all residing at Baro Kamlabari village of Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat district.
Referring to the case, police said Farhad, 25, developed an affair with neighbour Nurunnahar Begum, 20, daughter of poor farmer Sohrab Hossain and Honufa Begum, four years ago.
As Nurunnahar's parents tried to arrange her marriage on several occasions, Farhad managed to stop it by saying that he will marry the girl.
But Farhad called the girl to his home on Thursday night and told her that he would not marry her.
As the victim strongly protested and determined not to move from Farhad's home, she was confined to a room. Farhad and other accused tortured her mercilessly. Villagers rescued her in a critical condition and took her to Aditmari upazila health complex on Saturday noon.
Earlier the victim's family dared not file any case in face of threat by the alleged torturers.
With the help of villagers, Nurunnahar's father Sohrab Hossain submitted a written allegation accusing seven people regarding the matter at Aditmari police station on Monday night and the officer-in-charge recorded it as a case.
"We are facing insecure as the torturers this morning gave us death threat to withdraw the case,” said Sohrab Hossain yesterday.
The victim's mother Honufa Begum said, "As we could not buy medicines for our assaulted daughter villagers gave us some money for the purpose. We have no money to handle the case while the torturer family is rich and powerful.”
Officer-in-charge of Aditmari police station Mahfuzur Rahman said police is trying to arrest the accused people. Police will give legal support to the victim family, he added.
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