Stalkers beat a man to death for protesting harassment
A schoolgirl in Satkhira yesterday killed herself by taking poison reportedly after failing to bear the brunt of stalking. In Chapainawabganj a man was beaten to death by stalkers as he protested teasing of his colleague’s wife and daughter.
The deceased girl, Chameli Khatun, 14, daughter of Shafiqul Islam of Manderbaria village at Koira upazila, Khulna, was residing at her maternal uncle’s house here at Rajarbagan, reports our Satkhira correspondent.
She was a student of Pallimongal High School in Satkhira town.
Sadar Police Station Officer-in-Charge Shah Jahan Khan quoted locals saying Sumon, a student of Satkhira Government College, had been stalking the girl on her way to school for the last four months.
Yesterday Chameli went to Zia Hall of Satkhira Government College and took poison around 4:00pm. However, it is still unknown why she went there.
Local people and students took her to sadar hospital where she died around 5:30pm. Soon after the incident, Sumon went into hiding.
Our Chapainawabganj correspondent reports: Hannan Ali, 45, was a guard of Roads and Highway Department district office.
Sadar Police Station OC Ahsanul Haque and locals said Israil Hossain, 24, of Masjid Para; Saiful Islam, 28, owner of a salon near the RHD office; Anarul Islam, 45, of Rehaichar Moholla had been stalking Fatema Akhtar Brishti, a student of class X of Kamal Uddin Girls’ High School here for the last three months.
Brishti and her mother Mahmuda Khatun alleged they were stalked by Israil, Saiful and Anarul around 2:30pm yesterday, as the two were returning home after bathing in a river.
As Mahmuda protested, they assaulted her.
The stalkers also assaulted Mohammad Ali, father of Brishti and a peon of the Roads and Highway when they came to protest.
Hannan stepped in to help Mohammad Ali’s family and took them to his office.
Around 3:00pm, the three stalkers took Hannan to Saiful’s salon. They beat him to death and fled the area.
On information, police recovered the body and sent it to sadar hospital morgue for autopsy.
