UP chairman held for torturing teenager, mother in Dinajpur

Arrest

Hili, May 2 - A union parishad (UP) chairman has been arrested in a case filed for torturing a 13-year-old boy accusing him of stealing at Ghoraghat in Dinajpur.

The arrestee is Sajjad Hossain, chairman of Singra Union Parishad of the upazila.

According to the FIR filed with Ghoraghat Police Station, Monwara Begum, a resident of Abirpara Ashrayan Centre in the upazila, has been living with her son over there.

On Monday, Sajjad and Ward-8 member of the same union Mofizul Mia threatened the boy and his mother with the intention of evicting them from their home.

At one point, the chairman and the UP member started beating the boy with an iron rod. During the beating, the boy's mother came forward to protect her son, but she was also beaten up.

They were then confined at the Ashraya home, and the boy was accused of stealing at several places. Later the boy and his mother were told to leave the area. If he and his mother did not move, they would be killed.

Local people later rescued the mother and the son and admitted them to Ghoraghat Upazila Health Complex.

Ghoraghat Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abu Hasan Kabir said the victim's mother filed a case with the police station.

The accused UP chairman was arrested and sent to Dinajpur court this afternoon. Efforts are on to arrest another accused Mofizul, he added. - UNB