Police on Friday arrested a woman absconding in a case filed allegedly for torturing a nine-year old domestic maid in Gazipur.
The woman, Moni Begum, was arrested by a joint team of Joydebpur and Chandpur’s Haimchar policemen from one of her relative’s residence in the capital’s Badda area at around 10:30pm.
Chandpur police superintendent Shamsunnahar confirmed the arrest to Prothom Alo.
Earlier on Thursday, Moni Begum’s husband Omar Faruq was arrested from Gazipur’s West Burulia on the same charges.
Mustafa Sardar, who managed the job for the nine-year old girl from Chandpur in the residence of Moni and Faruq, was also arrested.
Joydebpur police station officer-in-charge Khandakar Rezaul Hasan said, “The case has been filed under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.”
The victim is now undergoing treatment in Chandpur Sadar Hospital, the OC added.
She was first admitted to Haimchar Health Complex with marks of wounds on her body.
According to Haimchar police, the victim’s mother Firoza Begum fell in trouble with her five children as her husband abandoned them.
Taking advantage of the situation, a person named Mustafa Sardar took the victim to Gazipur where she started working as a domestic maid at the house of Omar Faruq and Moni Begum.
Omar Faruq works at Dhaka airport and Moni Begum is a school teacher.
The couple allegedly tortured the minor brutally when she wanted to go to her village in Haimchar.
After learning about the torture, Mustafa Sardar brought the minor back to Haimchar.
Local people then admitted the minor to the Haimchar Health Complex and handed Mustafa Sardar to the police.
Source: Prothom Alo
