Staff Reporter :
The High Court (HC) on the occasion of International Women’s Day on Thursday granted bail to a 45-year old woman, who served behind bar for at least 20 years in an abduction case.
The HC asked the Deputy Commissioner and Social Services Officer in Cox’s Bazar district to rehabilitate Monwara Begum alias Khurshida Begum, if her relatives are not found after her release.
The HC bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Shahidul Karim passed the order after hearing a petition filed by a Supreme Court lawyer, Fazlur Rahman, seeking bail for Monwara Begum.
Wife of one Ismail from Purba Dhechua in Ramu Upazila of Cox’s Bazar, Monwara Begum was sentenced to life term imprisonment in 2001 in a kidnapping case at Cox’s Bazar The case was filed after Razia Akhter, a student of Cox’s Bazar Preparatory School, was abducted by Monwara on June 13, 1998.
Later law enforcers arrested Monwara and rescued victim Razia.
