A Madaripur court has placed a former union parishad member on a one-day remand in a case over an arbitration provoking a teenage girl to kill herself.
Judicial magistrate Masud Pervez passed the order on Monday when the police produced Mohsin Bepari, who is thought to be the main man behind the illegal arbitration, before the court with a two-day remand petition.
Mohsin was arrested on Saturday night following filing of a murder case by Hajera Khatun, mother of the girl, Shirin Akther.
Six other people were accused in the case for their role in the arbitration.
Shirin, a grade-X madrassah student from Aoz village of the upazila's Dudhkhali union, hanged herself from the ceiling fan at her house on Friday night after she was publicly humiliated at the arbitration.
Mortaza Sharif, a brother of the victim, on Saturday told reporters that Akhter committed suicide after returning from the arbitration.
She was caned by the arbitrators over an altercation with one of her neighbours, Shah Alam on Thursday, he said.
Meanwhile, two delegations of the Human Rights and Legal Aid Programme of non-government development organisation BRAC and Madaripur Legal Aid Association visited the victim's house on Monday. The High Court on July 31 ordered that such 'arbitration business' must stop amid outcry by human rights groups and media.
Source : New Age
