A team of Detective Branch of police on Wednesday arrested Hasan Syeed, 38, who reportedly had tortured his wife Rumana Monzur, a Dhaka University teacher, leaving her grievously injured, at Uttar Mugda in the capital.
The detectives nabbed Hasan nearly four hours after the High Court on Wednesday had issued summonses on assistant commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Dhanmondi circle, officer-in-charge of Dhanmondi police station, and the investigation officer of the case to appear before it on Thursday to explain their failure to arrest Hasan Syeed.
The bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore passed the suo moto order at 10:30am as deputy attorney general ABM Altaf Hossain drew the court's attention to newspapers reports on Rumana Monzur, an assistant professor of international relations at the DU, being admitted to an Indian hospital, Sankara Nethralaya, after being brutally tortured that left her left eye and left side of her nose critically injured.
Rumana was tortured allegedly by her husband Hasan on June 5 at her parents' Dhanmondi residence.
'On that day I removed an Iranian friend's name from her Facebook account without her consent. It made her furious and we locked horns over issue...,' claimed Hasan Syeed when the detectives produced him before the media at the DB office on Minto Road in the afternoon.
Hasan claimed Rumana betrayed his love. He said they got married 11 years ago after going steady for seven years.
When asked about torturing his wife, Hasan denied the allegation and claimed it was a 'scuffle' in which he, too, was injured.
He said, 'I am victim of the situation.'
Hasan said Rumana had been a very good lover and wife, a good mother to their daughter, and there had been no problem between them. But, after she had gone to Vancouver [in Canada] for higher studies, she changed all of a sudden.
'In Canada, she recently became involved in an affair with an Iranian man. I found some text messages on her cell-phone, which made me angry with her,' claimed Hasan.
DB officials said Hasan had fled to Chittagong in June but returned to Dhaka at about 4:30am on Wednesday.
The DB team led by assistant commission Abdul Ahad arrested him in his relative's house at Uttar Mugda at about 2:15pm, DMP DB deputy commissioner (south) Monirul Islam told reporters.
Monirul said the brutal incident took place due to the deep depression Hasan developed from being unemployed for a long period.
Hasan claimed he had returned to Dhaka to surrender to a court but the detectives arrested him before he could do that.
Monirul said they would verify all the statements Hasan made before the media to defend his actions.
After undergoing treatment in Labaid Specialised Hospital in Dhaka for more than a week, Rumana was sent to Chennai in India on Tuesday afternoon for better treatment of her eyes, her family told New Age.
One of the family members on Wednesday told New Age that senior eye specialists of Sankara Nethralaya in Chennai on Wednesday had examined for five hours whether she would regain vision in her right eye or not as there was no hope to restore vision in her left eye.
'She is yet to be admitted at the hospital as the senior consultants will examine her right eye tomorrow (Thursday) too,' the relative said, adding, 'The physicians in Chennai finally confirmed that Rumana's left eye was completely damaged.'
Meanwhile, Dhaka University teachers, students, rights activists, and people from all walks of life on Wednesday reiterated the call upon the government to bring Rumana's torturer to book.
Rumana is doing a post-graduate course in political science at the University of British Columbia in Canada. She returned home last month for research work, with a plan to return to Canada after three months.
source:New Age
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