1 nabbed over Sherpur housewife harassment

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested an accused in the case filed in connection with the nasty incident of stripping naked a young housewife during arbitration at Shapmari village in Sherpur.
The arrestee was identified as Mintu Miah, 20, son of Nawab Ali of Banderbari area in the district town of Jamalpur. He was one of the four accused in the attempted rape case registered on Monday in connection with the incident, a news agency report said.
The other accused are Joynal Abedin Hasi, 52, of the Shapmari village; Bhutto Miah, 30, son of Majnu Miah; and Mintu;s brother Mithun Miah, 25.
A team of Rab-14 arrested Mintu from in front of a workshop in Sadar upazila around 1:15pm, said company commander of Rab-14 Jamalpur Crime Prevention Company-1 additional police super Mohammad Tajul Islam.
According to the case statement, the victim went to her father’s house at Shapmari from her house at nearby Badapara village after her husband, who works at a washing company in Chittagong, left for his workplace on July 19.
Meanwhile, victim’s brother Azmir Hossain, a garment worker, had an altercation with his wife Shyamoly Begum over his job which went to arbitration on Friday.
The victim had an altercation with Shyamoly’s cousin Joynal Abedin Hasi after she sided with her brother at the arbitration.
At one stage, Hasi and his associates Mintu, Bhutto and Mithun stripped off her clothes and dragged her around in front of the villagers present at the arbitration.
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