Maid tortured to death for Tk 10

Police have arrested Cox's Bazar Forest Department Sadar Beat Officer Sirajul Islam and his wife Shirin Sultana on charge of torturing to death their teenage maid for stealing Tk 10.
The victim, Sufia, 13, took a soft drink from a nearby shop with Tk 10 that she stole from her master Sirajul Islam's pocket Friday noon, police and witnesses said.
Sufia, who later admitted to taking the money, received severe beating from Sirajul Islam and his wife Shirin Sultana and was left without any food for the whole day, they said.
As she started crying for food at night, Shirin Sultana uprooted nails of her hand with a sharp weapon and hit her body with hot spatula.
When she wanted to drink water at around 12:30am, she was again tortured. After she fell unconscious at around 2:00am, she was taken to Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital where she died at around 2:30am.
Informed by on-duty officer of the hospital, Cox's Bazar Sadar Police Station Sub-inspector (SI) Quader Siddiqui went to the spot and sent the body to hospital for autopsy.
“There are marks of hitting on Sufia's body. An autopsy would reveal details,” said Dr Saiful Islam, resident physician of the hospital.
“Sirajul Islam and his wife Shirin Sultana have been sent to jail under Section 54 after their arrest on charge of involvement in the killing. Sufia's parents have been informed,” SI Quader Siddiqui said on Saturday afternoon.
Sufia, daughter of Azizur Rahman of Kanainagar in Banchharampur upazila in Brahmanbaria, had been working for one year as domestic help in Sirajul Islam's rented house at Tekpara in Cox's Bazar town, police said.
Asked about torture on Sufia and her death, a crying Sirajul Islam said in the police station that he did not know anything about it.