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Yet another falls victim to dowry violence

Shamim Ashraf and Si iaheen MOLLAH
Fahima Begum, a mother of five-month-old boy, managed to save her child from a knife attack but could not protect herself. The attacker is none other than her husband who swooped on them failing to get dowry from his inlaws' house.
With two major stab wounds in her body, the 20-year-old woman is now undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
The incident took place at their rented house at Kathgora in Savar on September 24. Other tenants caught the husband, M Kawser, in the act and have left him tied up in the house since then.
Married for four years, Fahima and Kawser used to work at sweater factories near their house, but she stopped working in December last year when she was five months pregnant.
Her husband also stopped going to factory four months ago due to reasons unknown and started selling muri (puffed rice), which he continued only for two months, Fahima said, lying in her hospital bed.
"After the birth of my baby, my in-laws started pressing me to resume my factory work, but I
didn't comply as I wanted to give more time to my son," said Fahima, who used to earn more than her husband.
On September 9, Kawser asked his mother-in-law Shahinoor Begum, who lives with her three other children close to his house, to payTk 50,000 in dowry, saying that he needed the money to start fire-
wood business.
As she expressed her inability to give the money, Kawser pressed his wife to manage the money.
The next day he met Fahima's uncle Bachchu, a firewood trader, at their village home at Amtoli in Patuakhali and asked him for the money, but to no avail.
Kawser, who had already
stopped looking after his family, also started having his meal at an adjacent mess.
"It was at around 7:30am on September 24 when he called me to come out. As I was breastfeeding my son, I told him to wait for a few minutes. But he rushed into the bedroom, dragged me out and slapped me in front of other tenants of thehouse," Fahima said.
Her mother Shahinoor said, 'As one tenant protested the slapping. Kawser started stabbing Fahima with a knife, which he took from my
At that rime, Fahima's son Mehedi Hasan Bappi was in her lap She managed to save her son but received two stab wounds in the chest and abdomen.
"Her intestines spilled out immediately. With the help of neighbours, I rushed her to the hospital," said her mother.
Soon after the incident, Kawser tried to escape, but the neighbours caught and tied him to a pillar Of their house.
Fahima was operated upon at the hospital. She is now out of danger, doctors said.
"Local people asked us not to file any complaints with the police, saying that they would punish him through arbitration." the victim said, adding that she also wants punishment to him.