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Readers' instant comments on The Daily Star Online reports. Log on to thedailystar.net to leave your comments. Torturer Sumon caught
Claims wife Rumana cheated on him; her friend says doctors in India found grievous injuries to cornea, retinae of both eyes
(June 16, 2011) Sumon is using the age old trick that criminals use. He is now cheating as a defense. If she cheated on you, leave her, divorce her. But you cannot justify your actions by making her blind.
S khan Without glass the beast can not be seen and that is why he grabbed her face near her mouth to attack and to make her injured. If we call him a beast, that will be belittling a beast..
AA My son-in-law was not exactly the same, but the family was not too far from here. My daughter's mother-in-law was dangerous and giving her son bad advice all the time. Her father-in-law did not have any vocal in family affairs. I did not wait too long, asked my daughter to come home quickly and send her husband a divorce notice. If Rumana's parents did the same, then she would have lived life happily..
Opee What happened to Rumana is condemnable of course. But one-sided verdict in this case should not be done..
Azim Sumon is sick. An unemployed man can never absorb his wife's cumulative success. He needs psychiatric treatment firstly. Then the litigation which has been already lodged should be continued. We should vent our anger on our declined social ethics. We are heading uncharacteristically to the medieval age which is not a good sign. .
Nasirullah Mridha Nothing can justify Sumon's crime. Rumana may have an affair. But that does not make it legal for his husband to torture her so inhumanely. He could have divorced her or done anything to her but this torture. He should be given exemplary punishment. We want eyes for eyes..
Kayes Rumana, you are educated women. You earned yourself a Fulbright Scholarship to do your MS in a prestigious university and failed to take a right decision at the right time. For ten years a husband frequently is assaulting his wife and, you and your family failed to take the most vital decision of your life? Who will pay now? Just only you got married without your parent's permission is not an excuse at all. Your parents are equally responsible and failed to advice you properly. It is very sad and inhumane; but the victim herself and the family are equally responsible. We can't deny that. The criminal must be punished quickly so that the men behind these crimes do take note very seriously..
Sheikh Monirul Islam