Madaripur police have arrested a former union parishad member in a case for his alleged role in an arbitration, which has provoked a teenage girl to kill herself.
Madaripur sadar police station officer-in-charge Mohammad Moniruzzaman said on Sunday they arrested Mohsin Bepari, who was thought to be the main person behind the illegal arbitration, on Saturday night.
The arrest was made after a murder case was filed by Hajera Khatun, the girl's mother. Six other people have been accused in the case for their role in the arbitration that forced the 15-year-old Shirin Akther to commit suicide.
Shirin, a Grade-X madrassah student from Aoz village of the upazila's Dudhkhali union, hanged herself from the ceiling fan at her house on Friday night after she was publicly humiliated at the arbitration.
Moniruzzaman said they were trying to arrest the rest of the accused including villagers Akkas Bepari, Akkas Choukidar and Rashid Akand.
Mortaza Sharif, a brother of the victim, on Saturday told reporters that Shirin committed suicide after returning from the arbitration.
She was caned by the organisers over an altercation with one of her neighbours Shah Alam on Thursday, he said.
The High Court on July 31 ordered that such 'arbitration business' must stop amid outcry by human rights groups and media.
Source : New Age
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