Freed after 5 yrs\\\' of captivity

Police rescued a woman and her son in Feni on Wednesday evening after being confined in a room for five years. The victims are: Jahanara Begum Rosy, 45, a former teacher of Dhaka’s Viquarunnisa Noon School and College, and her son Mehedi Islam Jimun 11. Relatives said, Rosy married one Abul Kalam Azad Bhuiyan, also a DU graduate, in 2000. But they were divorced after three years. Rosy then moved to her parents’ home in Rampur in Feni town. Meanwhile, a feud between Rosy and her younger brother Sher Shah loomed over their parents' land property. In 2009, Sher Shah locked Rosy and her son Jimun in a room of one of the 2 houses in the same compound, owned by her parents in Feni's Rampur area, said Rosy's brother-in-law Nuru Islam. He said Sher Shah lives in Dhaka and Rosy’s other brother Shahen Shah is mentally ill. Their other four sisters could not contact Rosy because of (Sher) Shah's threats, the relatives of the victim alleged. Rosy, who has done her Master's in Bangla from Dhaka University (DU), used to teach at Viquarunnisa Noon School and College at Siddheswari in Dhaka city before her husband divorced her, they said. Local administration officials and police said that a raid was conducted after a newspaper reported the confinement. Eleven-year-old Jimun wrote a note pleading to rescue them and slid it outside through a closed window, which was found by a local and handed over to the newspaper. The mother and son was admitted to Feni Sadr Hospital after being rescued on Wednesday. Rosy is suffering from mental illness while Jimun is limping due to Ricket disease, said the hospital's Resident Medical Officer Asim Kumar Saha. He suspects Rosy might have developed Schizophrenia because of being held captive in a small room for 5 years, according to a news agency.