Police in Chandpur have arrested a couple for beating to death their three-year-old child to drive off the jinn who they said possessed her.
Emran Hossain, 40, and Amena Begum, 35, were implicated and sent to jail following a court order on Wednesday.
The killing of ‘Sumaya’ occurred at remote Kamarbarhi of Tarapur in Shahrasti Upazila early on Tuesday.
Shahrasti Police Station OC Mizanur Rahman said the couple practiced traditional healing – ‘Kabiraji’ –of which exorcism or spiritual therapy is a part.
Hossain told the police that his wife is also possessed by a jinn (genie).
Quoting Hossain and Begum, the OC said they tried to cure their daughter off of the jinn possession, but the jinn killed her.
Hossain was a seasonal carpenter in the area known as Siraj Memberer Barhi.
Begum started telling people a week ago that Sumaiya had been possessed.
Then the couple started taking money from people by performing the spiritual therapy.
Locals stopped Begum when she was beating Sumayia up, saying the child, too, was possessed.
The residents of the area also gave the child first aid.
Bringing her back, Hossain joined his wife to beat the child again in the night.
Sumayia died early on Tuesday.
Local Sohrab Hossain told bdnews24.com he went to their house when he heard of the therapy.
“I saw the couple beating the girl,” he said.
Source: bdnews24
