The High Court yesterday ordered law enforcers to protect the family of the housewife, who had been molested for casting vote in the national election.
It also asked the inspector general of police and the Lalmonirhat police chief to investigate the incident submit reports by April 6.
The bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain sought explanation from the government in two weeks as to why inaction and failure in probing the incident should not be declared illegal.
The orders followed a writ petition filed by rights group Ain O Salish Kendra, who cited a report published in the Dhaka Tribune on January 31.
The family of the victim, who live in Dhairkhata village in Lalmonirhat, are now planning to move selling their six-decimal land. They have been denied support from law enforcers and local people.
The housewife filed a case with sadar police station on January 12 against neighbour Shamsul Haque for attempting to rape her daughter on January 8.
She alleged that Shamsul and others had asked her not to go to the voting.
