In what can only be described as barbaric, a 35-year-old man, who is claimed to be mentally ill, has been chained in a hole by his family for around two months at Gojaria village in Bogra’s Sherpur upazila.
The family of Ainal Fakir, who has three sons, said he would often beat people and take away the neighbours’ valuables after he began to suffer from a mental illness around three months ago.
The annoyed neighbours advised his family to put him in chains in an effort to keep him at bay and so they put iron shackles on him and kept him in a hole beside the Bangali River.
A local union parishad member, Ajgar Ali, echoed the family, saying his family did not have any financial capacity to treat him and so he had been put in chains.
Talking to the Dhaka Tribune, Sherpur police station Officer-in-Charge (investigation) Mizanur Rahman said he had sent a sub-inspector to see to this.