UNB :
When sub-inspector Shapla picked up the hotline, she heard a woman screaming for help on the other end.
“Please help me. My husband is beating me. I’m dying,” said the woman in a desperate voice.
The distress call on August 21 this year came from Dhalpur community centre in the capital city.
SI Shapla (who gave only one name), then in charge of Quick Response Team (QRT) of police, gathered her team and rushed to the scene where she found a 22-year-old woman being battered by her husband.
The team rescued the woman, brought her to the police station where she was given some first aid. The offender-husband was detained and brought to the police station, too.
The rescued woman was later handed to her elder sister. The QRT team questioned the husband and was freed after he promised that he would treat his wife properly.
Shapla’s QRT team kept in contact with the rescued woman and found she went back to her husband and they had been living in peace.
“I feel so happy that we could restore peace in a troubled family,” said Shapla with a smile of satisfaction. “I hope they continue to live this way.”
Azmin Nahar, another sub-inspector in charge of a QRT team, had a similar story of success to tell to the UNB correspondent.
On a November day in 2020 Azmin got a hotline call from a 30-year-old woman who complained that her husband had tried to stab her. The reason? She wanted to leave for her village home in Mymensingh from her Hazaribagh residence to escape her husband’s repeated torture over family matters.
But the husband stopped her and was about to attack her with a kitchen knife when she insisted on leaving.
The woman was rescued and returned to her family, while legal actions were initiated against the husband.
