Police seek 7-day remand for Jubo Mohila League leader Mishu

Police have sought a seven-day remand for Jubo Mohila League leader Mehnaz Tabassum Mishu in a case filed over stripping a 15-year-old schoolgirl and throwing her off a five-storey rooftop in Savar.

The remand application was submitted in the Dhaka court this noon, Abdur Rashid, inspector (Investigation) of Savar Model Police Station, told The Daily Star.

Mehnaz, 35, joint general secretary of the Dhaka north unit of Jubo Mohila League, was arrested from her Savar home yesterday after the victim's mother filed a complaint with Savar Model Police Station against Mishu, her husband Atikur Rahman Atik, and six-seven unnamed people.

The complaint was recorded as a case last night and later Mishu was shown arrested in the case. Attempts are on to nab the other accused, the inspector said.

Meanwhile, the central committee of Bangladesh Jubo Mohila League suspended Mishu from the party following the incident saying that she was involved in activities against the party order.

According to the case statement, Mehnaz brought the girl from her poor mother and kept her at her house, promising that she would bear the living and educational costs of the girl.

On July 25, Mehnaz and the other accused tried to force the student into immoral activities after they forcefully stripped her and took photographs of her. When the girl refused to do as they demanded, they fed her drugs and threw her off the rooftop of their five-storey building.

The girl was critically injured and hospitalised for weeks before she was returned home recently. Soon after her return, the mother lodged the complaint, based on which police arrested Mehnaz.

"A case was filed against Mehnaz and others under the Women and Children Repression Prevention act and for attempted murder," said Savar Model Police Station's officer in charge (OC) Dipok Chandra Saha yesterday.