<i>Torturers now out to foil case, abduct the girl</i>
Tortured Nurunnahar, undergoing treatment at Aditmari upazila health complex, is now getting abduction threat from the culprits.
“Men hired by the torturers are moving in front of the health complex. They are giving threat to abduct me from the hospital. We are poor. But the torturer family is rich and powerful. With the help of some ruling party men, they are trying to foil our case in the police station,” said a tearful Nurunnahar lying at the health complex bed yesterday morning.
Reading newspaper reports of torture on Nurunnahar, Dilruba Parvin, senior manager of women's right at RDRS, visited Nurunnahar at Aditmari upazila health complex yesterday morning.
“I saw marks of torture even at sensitive parts of her body,” she said.
She told the victim's parents Sohrab Hossain, a marginal farmer, and Honufa Begum that RDRS will bear all the expenditure for her treatment and legal aid.
The torturers are moving freely in the village although a case was lodged on Monday night, Sohrab and Honufa said, adding that it will be difficult for them and their relatives to stay at their houses at Baro Kamlabari village if the police favours the torturers.
The victim's cousins Abdul Hai, Abdus Sattar and Abdul Gofur said they and other relatives of Nurunnahar at Baro Kamlabari village are also receiving threat from the torturers as police is not active enough to arrest them.
Asked about the matter, Aditmari police station Officer-in-Charge Mahfuzur Rahman said police has continued drives at suspected areas to arrest Nurunnahar's torturers since Monday night.
Lalmonirhat Superintendent of Police Israil Hawlader said he ordered Aditmari police to arrest the torturers anyhow.
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