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Faridpur Gang Rape

Hunger, threat, shame torment victim's family

SHARIFUL ISLAM and REZAUL Karim from Faridpur
Family members of the recently gang raped schoolgirl in Faridpur are now facing serious economic hardship as the rickshaw-puller father of the family cannot work following threats to his life.
The family is going through the tremendous social humiliation in empty stomachs, as the sole breadwinner cannot work and the criminals are yet to be arrested.
"It is afternoon. By this time everybody has had their second meal of the day, but I could not even provide a fist full of rice to my five-year-old boy since last night." the mother said as a weak child on her lap uttered, "Ma give me some rice."
The mother said they used to live from hand to mouth on her husband's earnings but he has been unable to work for the last one month after a man identifying himself as Sumon over cellphone threatened to sever his head if he took legal action against the criminals--Tushar Khan and Kalam Khan.
"The caller told my husband that he would chop off his head if he goes to Charbhadrashan to pull his rickshaw," the mother toldThe Daily Star.
She said she has not cooked anything for the last 15 days, as her husband could not buy anything.
"We have been living on neighbours' handouts," she said.
She said they are virtually under self-imposed house arrest as the social humiliation is unbearable.
"How can we go out? Everybody knows our daughter was raped. It would be better for us to die..." the mother said as tears rolled down her cheeks.
"Since the incident the news spread like wildfire in two upazilas and it finally got to us," she said.
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Village security guard Md Rafique of Bishnopur told The Daily Star that TUshar and his gang, suspecting that he had spoken to the police about the rape, threatened him with life. THE DANGEROUS
CRIMINALS
Tushar married a girl only a few months ago by force. He abducted the girl when she had sat for only six papers of herSSC exams.
Finding no way her father had to marry her off to TUshar.
He was a student of Adarsha High School of Charbhadrashan and studied up to class-VIII before droppingout.
Tushar has no jobs and has Romeo repute in the locality.
His three brothers are Saudi expatriates while the eldest one is a construction contractor in Faridpur who has influence. Money and influence were never a problem for TUshar.
Locals fear TUshar and his gang so much that they retreat to the side of the road whenever Tushar and his gang approach on motorbikes.
They say that he and his friends carry arms and use drugs.
Kal am Khan is a little different but not less dangerous than TUshar, locals claimed.
A neighbour of the victim and a retired schoolteacher wishing anonymity said, They [TUshar and his gang] are very dangerous and influential. They can kill the victim's father any time."