Police arrested a female school teacher on charge for torturing a minor domestic help from her relative’s house in city’s Badda area on Friday night.
The arrested teacher has been identified as Moni Begum, wife of Md Omar Faruk. She is a school teacher in Gazipur city area, police said.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Joydebpur Police Station Khondokar Rezaul Hossain said, “A joint team of Joydebpur and Chandpur police arrested Moni Begum from one of her relative’s house in city’s Badda area.”Police had earlier arrested her husband Omar Faruk, a supervisor of cargo service at the Dhaka airport, from Joydevpur on Thursday after a case was filed with Haimchar Police Station of Chandpur district under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act.
Mostafa Sardar, who had taken the nine-year old child to the couple, was also arrested.
According to the case, the minor domestic help, a resident of Nayani village in Haimchar upazila of Chandpur district, had been subjected to barbaric torture at Moni’s residence for nearly a year.
Mostafa Sarder had promised to the victim’s mother that he would give her Tk 500 a month if she would let her daughter work in Gazipur.
Chandpur Superintendent of Police Shamsunnahar, who visited the child at the Haimchar Health Complex, said, “There are bruises and scars all over the child’s body. She is clearly traumatised and gets agitated when she sees a crowd.”
“It seems that the kid’s head was hit on tiles. Besides, different parts of her body appear to have been perched with hot kitchen tools. There were also burn marks apparently from electric wires on her body,” said Depen Dey, a doctor at the health complex.
