The High Court on Tuesday asked nine people, including a union parishad chairman and three police officers, to appear on August 23 to explain their role in the arbitration which drove a housewife into committing suicide with her two children by jumping under a train in Madhabpur of Habiganj on Monday.
A bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore also issued a rule suo moto asking the government to explain why their inaction in respect of the tragic incident should not be declared illegal.
The police was asked to explain why they should not be directed to prosecute persons involved in the arbitration at village Sultanpur of Andiura union in the district, which had led to the tragic death of the woman, Ferdausi Akhter, and her two children and caused injuries to two others.
The court passed the order after Supreme Court lawyer Moniruzzaman Azad had drawn its attention to a news report carried on Tuesday by different dailies that the women with her four children jumped under a Sylhet-bound train on Monday morning after a rural arbitration had ostracized her and asked her to leave the village over an unfounded allegation that she had an extra-marital affair.
The nine persons who have been summoned by the court are – Andiur union parishad chairman Atikur Rahman, member Tapan Dev, former member Moloy Miah and three others – Abdur Rahman, Fazlur Rahman and Karim Kha.
The rest three are – Madhabpur police officer-in-charge Mainul Chowhdury, sub-inspector Ehsanul Haque and Shayestaganj railway station's police box in-charge Monwar Hossain.
Being unable to stand the humiliation in public by the rural arbitration, Ferdausi Akhter, 35, jumped under the train with her four children. She and her two children died while the two others sustained grievous injuries.
It was alleged that the village arbitration had brought allegation against Ferdausi, wife of expatriate worker Jilon Miah, that she had an illicit relationship with Jilon's nephew Abdul Kadir.
The arbitration, 10 days before the month of Ramandan began, rebuked Ferdausi and asked her to leave the village.
Source : New Age
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