A woman was tortured and her head was shaved off by some people on charge of extramarital affairs at Ramganj upazila, Lakshmipur.
Although police arrested a person in connection with the incident, but the victim is still living with insecurity as the offenders are influential people in the locality and two of them are yet to be arrested.
One Hasina Begum, wife of Mona Miah, called upon her at her (Hasina) residence on Tuesday afternoon and accused her of making extra marital affair with her husband.
As the victim denied the allegation, five people, including Hasina’s brother Aziz and son Faruk, tied her with a tree and tortured her.
At one stage, they perpetrators shove off her hair with a blade and put a shoe garland around her neck.
Later, local people took her to Ramganj Upzila Health Complex in critical state. Later, the victim filed a case against the trio with Ramganj police station accusing five people.
Meanwhile, locals staged demonstrations yesterday demanding the arrest and exemplary punishment of the perpetrators.
Officer-in-charge of the police station Solaiman Hossain said they had already arrested Hasina Begum in connection with incident while a drive was going on to arrest others.
General Secretary of NGO Forum Asaduzzam told the Dhaka Tribune that the influential quarters had tortured the innocent women who was left by her husband. He threatened that they would wage movement.