Our Correspondent :
A woman, who has claimed she got married to former Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi nearly three decades ago, has alleged that the ruling party leader attempted killing of their unborn after knowing that she was pregnant.
Sufia Khatun, mother of Mohammad Ishak, 27, said Bodi and his father-arranged marriage of her to another person forcibly to save their prestige and hide the incident.
She gets married with the person and thus helped her child Ishak save.
The woman, around 55, spoke to this correspondent and shared her untold issues on Thursday, just four days after her son Ishak made a plea to a court in Teknaf demanding recognition as the son of Bodi. A resident of Kaiukkhali Para village of Teknaf municipality in Cox’s Bazar, Sufia alleged that Abdur Rahman Bodi, former MP from Cox’s Bazar 4 (Ukhiya-Teknaf) constituency, married her following Islamic law and she subsequently conceived their son later on.
“Bodi wanted to kill the six-month foetus. However, I was forced to concede some conditions put by Bodi and his father to save the unborn child. “They married me off to one Nurul Islam, a mason by profession, and forced us to leave Teknaf,” Sufia said.
“Nurul, however, accepted all these things and raised him [Ishak] like his own child.”
She said: “Now my son is an honours student of Cox’s Bazar Government College. He needs the recognition of his father. I do not have any greed for Bodi’s wealth, just I want the recognition of my child’s paternity.”
The former lawmaker could not be reached for his comments over the issue.
The former MP, who has earned a bad name for his alleged involvement in various criminal activities, has again become a topic of discussion after Ishak went to the court on December 13 for recognition that he is a son of Bodi. In Ishak’s plea to an assistant judge court in Teknaf, he demanded DNA tests, if needed, to prove his claim.
On April 5 in 1992, Bodi married Sufia Khatun at a hotel owned by his family called Hotel Niribili. Moulvi Abdus Salam, a staff of the hotel, officiated at the marriage and its gatekeeper Ekhlas Miya was the witness, according to the plea. When Ishak was a child, he visited Bodi numerous times with his mother and Bodi showed affection to him in different ways similar to that of a father, the plea added.
Ishak’s mother, in order to safeguard Bodi’s political career and his social status, had not made the claim earlier but as Ishak is grown up now, he feels the need of a father by his side, the plea said.
A woman, who has claimed she got married to former Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi nearly three decades ago, has alleged that the ruling party leader attempted killing of their unborn after knowing that she was pregnant.
Sufia Khatun, mother of Mohammad Ishak, 27, said Bodi and his father-arranged marriage of her to another person forcibly to save their prestige and hide the incident.
She gets married with the person and thus helped her child Ishak save.
The woman, around 55, spoke to this correspondent and shared her untold issues on Thursday, just four days after her son Ishak made a plea to a court in Teknaf demanding recognition as the son of Bodi. A resident of Kaiukkhali Para village of Teknaf municipality in Cox’s Bazar, Sufia alleged that Abdur Rahman Bodi, former MP from Cox’s Bazar 4 (Ukhiya-Teknaf) constituency, married her following Islamic law and she subsequently conceived their son later on.
“Bodi wanted to kill the six-month foetus. However, I was forced to concede some conditions put by Bodi and his father to save the unborn child. “They married me off to one Nurul Islam, a mason by profession, and forced us to leave Teknaf,” Sufia said.
“Nurul, however, accepted all these things and raised him [Ishak] like his own child.”
She said: “Now my son is an honours student of Cox’s Bazar Government College. He needs the recognition of his father. I do not have any greed for Bodi’s wealth, just I want the recognition of my child’s paternity.”
The former lawmaker could not be reached for his comments over the issue.
The former MP, who has earned a bad name for his alleged involvement in various criminal activities, has again become a topic of discussion after Ishak went to the court on December 13 for recognition that he is a son of Bodi. In Ishak’s plea to an assistant judge court in Teknaf, he demanded DNA tests, if needed, to prove his claim.
On April 5 in 1992, Bodi married Sufia Khatun at a hotel owned by his family called Hotel Niribili. Moulvi Abdus Salam, a staff of the hotel, officiated at the marriage and its gatekeeper Ekhlas Miya was the witness, according to the plea. When Ishak was a child, he visited Bodi numerous times with his mother and Bodi showed affection to him in different ways similar to that of a father, the plea added.
Ishak’s mother, in order to safeguard Bodi’s political career and his social status, had not made the claim earlier but as Ishak is grown up now, he feels the need of a father by his side, the plea said.
