{"id":1481,"date":"2011-12-19T11:15:24","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T16:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2011-12-19T11:15:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T16:15:24","slug":"bangladesh-man-admits-cutting-off-wifes-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/bangladesh-man-admits-cutting-off-wifes-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh man ‘admits’ cutting off wife’s fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Hawa Ms Akther hopes to continue her studies using her left hand to hold a pen<\/div>\n

Human rights groups in Bangladesh have demanded a severe punishment for the husband of a young woman who allegedly cut off most of her right hand.<\/p>\n

Police say Rafiqul Islam, 30, attacked her because she pursued higher education without his permission.<\/p>\n

They say Mr Islam, a migrant worker, admitted to the crime shortly after returning home from the Gulf.<\/p>\n

However there has been no independent confirmation from the suspect that he carried out the attack.<\/p>\n

The incident is one of a number of acts of domestic violence targeting educated women in recent months.<\/p>\n

Police say that Mr Islam, who works in the United Arab Emirates, tied up his 21-year-old wife, Hawa Akther Jui, earlier this month. He then taped her mouth and cut off the five fingers.<\/p>\n

‘Severe consequences’<\/p>\n

Doctors say the fingers cannot be re-attached and it appears that Ms Akther will have to live with permanent disfigurement.<\/p>\n

\"Rafiqul Rafiqul Islam is reported to have confessed to the crime<\/div>\n

“After he came back to Bangladesh, he wanted to have a discussion with me. Suddenly, he blindfolded me and tied my hand,” Ms Akther told the BBC from the town of Narsingdi.<\/p>\n

“He also taped my mouth saying that he would give me some surprise gifts. But, instead he cut off my fingers.”<\/p>\n

She said her husband, who is not well educated, did not approve of her enrolling in a college for higher studies.<\/p>\n

During their earlier telephone conversations, she said, he warned her of “severe consequences” if she went against his word.<\/p>\n

“Doctors said my fingers could be re-attached within six hours but he refused to give them. After that time, another relative of my husband threw the fingers in a dustbin.<\/p>\n

“We finally recovered them but it was too late,” said Ms Akther, who is still recovering at her parents’ house.<\/p>\n

She said that she did not want to live with her husband – who is now in police custody – any more.<\/p>\n

The police officer investigating the case, ARM Al-Mamun, said “preliminary investigations” had led police to believe that it was a “pre-planned attack”.<\/p>\n

“He [the husband] admitted to cutting off his wife’s fingers. We will be pressing charges against him,” Mr Al-Mamum said.<\/p>\n

A family member of Mr Islam said that the couple had “differences” on some issues, including her decision to pursue higher studies.<\/p>\n

Ms Akther – who is eager to continue her studies – said that she wanted her husband to be severely punished for the attack.<\/p>\n

“I have now started practising writing with my left hand. I want to see how far I can go. I never imagined that my fingers would be chopped off like this because of my studies.”<\/p>\n

The attack follows an incident in June in which a university lecturer lost one eye while the other was badly wounded in an attack allegedly carried out by her husband.<\/p>\n

The accused man in this case, Syeed Hasan Sumon, died in custody earlier this month while awaiting trial.<\/p>\n

Source BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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