Husband charge-sheeted for torturing Shamima
UN award winner Shamima
Police yesterday pressed charges against two people including the husband of Shamima Khatun, a UN winner of Global Micro Entrepreneurship Awards, in the case for torturing her. The investigation officer (IO) of the case, Shyamnagar Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abdur Razzak submitted the charge sheet against Shamima's husband Maniruzzaman Manir and her brother-in-law Akhtaruzzaman Liton before the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court at Satkhira. Shamima Khatun was hospitalised on September 6 after being tortured by her husband for protesting his extramarital affairs. She was released from hospital on September 15. Shamima filed a case with Shyamnagar Police Station accusing her husband Manir and her brother-in-law Akhtaruzzaman Liton. Police arrested Manir on September 10 but Liton has remained absconding. A wholesaler of vegetables, Shamima was adjudged the winner of “The Most Innovative Business of the Year” organised by Citi Group Foundation and UN Capital Development Fund. She attended UN gala in New York as a representative of Bangladesh at the closing ceremony of the International Year of Micro-credit in 2005.
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