Man gets life for selling wife to brothel

A man was awarded life imprisonment and fined Tk 50,000, in default to suffer more one year jail, for trafficking his wife to India. Judge of the District and Sessions Court in Lalmonirhat Miah Mohammad Ali Akbar Azizi delivered the verdict yesterday.

The convict is Meser Ali, alias Bacchu alias Siddique, 38, of Dowani village in Barakhata union under Hatibandha upazila of the district.

The case statement said Meser Ali married 19-year-old Ayesha Begum in February 1999, and sold her to a brothel in Shillong in India in June the same year.

The victim returned home in March 2005. She lodged a case with Hatibandha Police Station on April 6, 2005, accusing her husband Meser Ali.

Hatibandha police said the convict was arrested from his house in November 2014.

The victim's father said "Meser Ali took our daughter to India to look for a job," adding that he had no contact with his daughter and her husband since then. "We came to know about the matter clear when our daughter returned home," he added.

 "I was sold to a brothel in Shillong for one lakh Indian Rupees. There was no scope to escape from there. Finally, with the help of a Bengali customer, I managed to run away from the brothel on April 1, 2005," she said.

The victim said she believed her husband and loved him very much, so she went with him to India easily. "I'm happy as the criminal, culprit, cheater who was my husband has been awarded life imprisonment," she said.