Stalker's mother, brother try to sue Pinky's mother

12 April 2010, 18:00 PM

A Correspondent, Kishoreganj

Elder brother and mother of Tabarak, the alleged stalker and killer of Mariam Akhter Pinky in Tarail of Kishoreganj, tried to file a case against the victim's mother yesterday implicating her in the death of Tabarak's sister. Tarail police however declined to record the case, terming their statement baseless. Tabarak's elder brother Mubarak said he and his mother tried to file a case against Pinky's mother Latifa Akhter alleging that his sister Taslima Akhter died of a heart attack on Thursday due to police harassment of their family sparked by a case filed by Latifa implicating Tabarak in the murder of Pinky. Local residents however said Taslima had two other heart attacks even before Pinky's death. Meanwhile, police were yet to arrest alleged stalker and killer Tabarak yesterday, seven days into 16-year old Pinky's murder by burning. Pinky was a class ten student of Purura High School in Tarail. Before Pinky died, on her deathbed in Dhaka Medical College Hospital she told her mother that Tabarak set her on fire, and he had also been stalking her for quite some time. Kishoreganj Superintendent of Police Mir Rezaul Alam said he had a meeting with his officers yesterday, and instructed them to make all out efforts to arrest Tabarak. Regarding the alleged killer's family's attempt to file a case against Latifa, he said police action against an accused could not be a ground for filing a case against the complainant. Mubarak, a jail guard in Narsingdi, is also spreading rumours in Tarail assassinating the characters of Pinky and her mother, to divert the focus of the case filed against his brother by Latifa, alleged Pinky's family. Pinky's uncle Monayem Bhuiyan said character assassination of his sister-in-law and murdered niece by Tabarak's family is adding insult to their injury. Local residents including Pinky's classmates and family members alleged that Tabarak had been stalking Pinky on her way to school, and had been harassing her family by throwing brickbats on the tin roof of their house over the last two years.