Our Correspondent :
Hefazat-e-Islam leader Mamunul Haque sued in a case on charges of rape with Sonargaon police station in Narayanganj.
Jannat Ara Jharna, who Mamunul claimed to be his second wife, filed the lawsuit (case number 30) on Friday morning under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, Officer-in-Charge (OC) Hafizul Islam of the police station told the media.
The case was filed three
days after the Detective Branch of police rescued Jharna from a house in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area.
She was reportedly detained at the house, which belongs to Mamunul’s sister Dilruba, since the incident with Mamunul at a resort in Sonargaon on April 3.
Waliur Rahman, Jharna’s father, filed a general diary (GD) with Kalabagan police station on April 26, as he had been unable to locate his daughter since news of the resort incident broke out.
Besides, Abdur Rahman, Jharna’s son with her former husband, also filed another GD with Paltan police station on April 11.
Since the resort incident, although the Hefazat leader claimed Jharna as her second wife, she did not mention herself as his wife in the case document.
According to the case statement, Jharna got acquainted with Mamunul in 2005 as he was a close friend of her former husband Maulana Shahidul Islam.
Before meeting Mamunul, the couple was leading a happy life.
Mamunul used to come freely at their house and played various tricks to make their marital life toxic.
At one stage, based on the evil counsel of Mamunul, the couple (Jharna and Shahidul) got divorced on August 10, 2018.
After the divorce, Mamunul allured her to come to Dhaka and keeping trust in him, Jharna did so.
“At one stage, he established a physical relationship with me alluring about marriage.”
During the last two years, he took her to different hotels and resorts in Dhaka and adjacent areas in the name of visiting places where Mamunul spent time with Jharna promising her marriage.
“When I talked about marriage, he was wasting time by giving me assurance,” she said.
Mamunul took her to Sonargaon resort on April 3 and raped her there again promising her marriage.
Local people detained them at the resort while followers of Mamunul attacked the resort and took them away, according to the case document.
After the incident, Mamunul kept her confined illegally in the house of an acquaintance and did not allow her to contact her parents and children.
“Later, I tactfully informed my eldest son Abdur Rahman about my condition and asked him to take legal steps to rescue me from captivity.”
When the DB police rescued Jharna on April 27, she came to know that her father already made a general diary with Kalabagan police station in the capital to rescue her.
“The police rescued and handed me over to my father.”
She faced threats from the followers of Mamunul and consulted with her family and relatives and thus it got delayed to file a complaint, the case statement added.
After filing the lawsuit, Jharna talked with journalists and said Mamunul had been deceiving her for a long time.
“He [Mamunul Haque] has done injustice to me by taking advantage of my simplicity.”
She, however, demanded justice in the case.
Narayanganj Superintendent of Police (SP) Zayedul Alam told the media that they are working to ensure justice for the victim.
In the meantime, the woman underwent medical tests at Narayanganj General Hospital, he said.
“Mamunul Haque will be shown arrested and interrogated in the case. We will do everything for the sake of the investigation,” the SP added.
On April 3, people found and surrounded Mamunul, former joint secretary general of the Islamist group, staying with a woman, who he claimed to be his wife, at Royal Resort in Sonargaon.
Local administration and police officials went to the resort on hearing about the incident.
Police said at the time Mamunul was not being detained or arrested and that they were trying to find out what happened.
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Later on, stick-wielding Hefazat supporters launched an attack on the resort. They vandalized it and snatched Mamunul from the police.
They also blocked the Dhaka-Chittagong highway, vandalized and torched vehicles, protesting what they said harassment of the Islamist leader. At the same time, Hefazat activists attacked the local Awami League office and vandalized it.
On April 18, police raided Mohammadpur Jamia Rahmania Arabia Madrasa in Dhaka and arrested the Hefazat leader, who has been in the limelight for several months for mobilizing violent movements demanding removal of Bangabandhu’s sculpture and protesting against the arrival of the Indian prime minister.
There have been multiple cases filed against Mamunul before the arrest.
On April 19, a Dhaka court placed him on seven-day remand in a case filed with Mohammadpur police station in 2020.
On April 26, he was put on seven-day remand afresh in two cases lodged over Hefazat’s mayhem in the capital in May 2013 and March 2021.
The cases were filed with Motijheel and Paltan police stations respectively.
