A 15-year-old pregnant housewife, who was undergoing treatment after her husband allegedly tortured her at his in-laws’ house for dowry, died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Tuesday night.
The deceased was identified as Jannatul Ferdous, daughter of Abul Kalam, a madrassa teacher and a resident of Haji K Ali Road under Kadamtoli police station in Dhaka.
Family members alleged that Ferdous’s husband Mohammad Helal had tortured her at his house on June 16 and she was admitted to DMCH in critical condition.
‘Helal had kidnapped Jannatul Ferdous two years back while she was going to attend her class at Mohammadia Dakhil Madrassa and married her. Helal,an unemployed man, often tortured her as she failed to pay the dowry demanded by him,’ the victim’s maternal uncle advocate Aminul Islam told reporters at DMCH.
He said that police had arrested Helal after the victim’s father filed a case under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act with Kadamtoli police station in June.
Aminul Islam said, ‘Helal brutally tortured Jannatul with iron rods at his house. I took her to DMCH on June 16. There were marks of torture on her body.’
Jannatul died at the hospital at about 9pm on Tuesday, hospital sources said.
The body was later taken to the hospital morgue for post-mortem examination.
Kadamtoli police officer-in-charge Shafiqul Islam said that they had already arrested the main accused Helal to bring him to justice.
-With New Age input
