The High Court on Thursday directed the police to submit by 30 days a progress report of the investigation into the torture of Dhaka University teacher Rumana Monzur, reportedly by her husband.
The chief metropolitan magistrate's court remanded Rumana's husband Hasan Sayeed Sumon in the custody of the Detective Branch for two days for interrogation.
The High Court bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore directed the police to submit the progress report before it after Dhanmondi thana's circle assistant commissioner Sharifur Rahman, its officer-in-Charge Moniruzzaman and investigation officer Mokbul Hossain informed them of Sumon's arrest.
The police also told the court that Rumana's case document had already been handed over to the Detective Branch.
The victim's father, Major (Retd) Monzur Hossain, filed a case with Dhanmondi thana on June 6 against Hasan on charge of attempting to kill his daughter.
A team of the Detective Branch on Wednesday arrested Hasan from his relative's house in Uttar Mugda hours after the same bench, in its suo moto rule, directed the three police officers to appear before the court to explain why they had not been able to apprehend him.
The police officials told the court that they had tried hard to arrest Hasan but were delayed as he was untraced and his mobile was switched off.
The court censured the police officers for delaying Hasan's arrest until they were served a ruling.
After the hearing, the court exempted the police officers from being personally present during the next procedure of the case.
The court also said that it would monitor the case for a month.
It also asked Alina Khan, the lawyer appointed by Rumana's family, to go ahead with the case carefully.
In the afternoon metropolitan magistrate Shahriar Mahmud Adnan passed the remand order after the Detective Branch produced Hasan with a prayer for a 10-day remand.
The court also rejected the petitions filed by Hasan's lawyer Haji Monwarul Islam Chowdury, seeking bail and the cancellation of the remand.
'Hasan and Rumana engaged in a tussle on June 5 when a vulgar text message was sent in the Facebook to Rumana by an Iranian, Taher Bin Nadir, with whom she had studied in Canada and had an extra-marital affair,' argued the defence lawyer.
Hasan did not beat up his wife willingly but she might have been hurt in the tussle, the defence lawyer argued, and opposed to the argument made by Rumana's lawyer Zakaria Haider.
'Hasan became furious and tortured Rumana in an attempt to kill her as she wanted to go Canada again to complete her PhD, and he has now concocted a false story to clear himself of the charge,' Zakaria argued.
Rumana had earlier told the media that her husband tried to gouge her eyes out with his fingers.
She also claimed that he bit and gnawed her nose, face and throat on June 5 at her parents' flat in Dhanmondi where the
two had been living for
six years since Rumana conceived her only daughter.
After undergoing treatment in LabAid Specialised Hospital for more than a week, Rumana was
sent to Chennai on Tuesday for better treatment of
her eyes.
source:NewAge
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