<i>Extreme case of stalkers' audacity</i>
Criminals, angered by protest against stalking of a madrasa girl, made computer designed obscene posters involving her and pasted its copies at different places in Nawabganj upazila under the district.
Father of the victim girl (name not mentioned) on April 27 filed a case with the local police station accusing four people -- Shamim Hossain, 18, his parents Nurunnabi, 52, and Anwara Begum, 41, and friend Anaj Ali, 18, of Monjupara village in Nawabganj upazila. The four accused fled their home after the case.
The obscene posters were made by a commercial computer designer by setting the girl's face with nude photographs of different girls collected from the Internet, police said.
Shamim started stalking the girl, a class nine student of a local madrasa, about six months ago, said her parents.
Shamim and his friend Anaj Ali tried to molest the girl on her way to the madrasa on February 13 this year when locals came to her rescue and detained the two culprits, they said.
At a local arbitration, Shamim promised not to stalk the girl again while his parents pledged to see the matter.
As Shamim continued irritating the girl and also threatened her family of dire consequences for arranging the arbitration, her parents sent her to a relatives' house in Phulbari upazila.
Recently the girl returned home and started attending her classes at the madrasa.
On April 26 morning, students and teachers of the madrasa and the locals were shocked to see that hundreds of obscene posters with bad remarks about the girl were pasted at different places.
Seeing the matter, the girl's father, a local rickshaw-van puller, fainted.
Demanding exemplary punishment to the offenders, Wahedul Islam, a former UP member of the area, said, "The previous night, I saw Shamim along with others pasting some posters. Then I could not understand that they were doing such a heinous act.”
"In village arbitrations, Shamim had promised not to stalk the girl while his parents Nurunnabi and Anwara Begum said they would keep their son under control," said Sirajul Islam, an UP member of the area.
“They ruined my daughter's life,” said the victim's father.
"I dreamt of getting higher education to bring solvency to my parents. But now I can't show my face in public," said the victim.
Md Anisur Rahman, investigation officer of the case, said he seized huge posters of the girl but nobody could be arrested in this connection as the accused went into hiding.
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