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Rumana returns without any hope of regaining vision

Rumana Monzur, a Dhaka University teacher brutally tortured by her husband Hasan Syeed, returned home on Monday with the verdict of Indian eye specialists that there was virtually no hope for her to regain vision.

On June 5, when Hassan tortured Rumana, he allegedly tried to gouge both her eyes out.

After undergoing treatment at Labaid Specialised Hospital in Dhaka, Rumana, an assistant professor of international relations at Dhaka University, along with her parents and only daughter went to Chennai on June 14 for better treatment of her eyes.

'She was examined by the eye specialists at Sankara Nethralaya in Chennai and then Aravind Eye Hospital in Pondicherry but all of them judged the damage done to her eyes beyond repair,' one of her family members told New Age.

On Monday, she along with her family arrived at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at around 3:45pm and was admitted again at Labaid Specialised Hospital.

Hassan, who on Sunday was remanded for another day in custody of Detective Branch of police for further quizzing about his alleged attempt to murder his wife, will be produced before a magistrate court today with a prayer for remanding him in DB police custody once again, the investigation officer of the case, sub-inspector Bahauddin Faruki, told New Age.

The same court on June 16 remanded Hassan in DB police custody for two days.

Hassan was arrested at Mugda in the capital on

Source : New Age