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Incredulous arbitration

Raped twice, evicted from home, gets Tk 5,000 in compensation

Our Correspondent, Bogra
\ sexagenarian raped a six-year-old girl twice in Nandigram upazila of Bogra and forced the victim's family to leave home quietly through village arbitration.
In the so-called arbitration in February, accused Ahmad Ali, 62, was only asked to give the victim a compensation of Tk 30,000.
The arbitrators said the girl had been tainted and should not be allowed to live at her home in Boro Derahar village.
Mamun Master, Abdul Gafur and Ansar Ali were among the arbitrators. They are on good terms with the influential Ahmad, a neighbour of the victim.
The girl had to move to her aunt's house at Telihara village of Sadar upazila. She got only Tk 5,000 in compensation from the accused.
On information from a villager and a local journalist, Sharmin Sultana Shumi, Women Affairs Officer in Nandigram upazila, took the victim under government care and helped the family file a case on Tuesday.
The incident is another grim reminder of women's status in societv where many of them are subjected to rape and physical abuse.
The poorer a woman the more vulnerable she is to such crimes that are often kept concealed, thanks to local arbitration. The memory of the gang rape of two dalit women in Jessore's Rishipara in January and the police attempt to cover it up is still fresh in people's minds.
"Ahmad Ali is of my father's age and he has grandchildren," said the victim's mother, who learnt about it when Ahmad raped the minor girl the second time.
"She |the victim | was crying in pain," said the mother, whose husband is a landless farmer.
"Uncle |Ahmad| has behaved with me in a nasty way," the victim told her mother that day.
Women Affairs Officer Shannin said, "There is little hope that the case will be proved, as considerable time has passed since the rape was committed."
Police are not much hopeful about
the case either.
"We have had the girl examined medically," said Shahjahan Ali, offi-cer-in-charge of Nandigram Police Station.
He said they would proceed with the case, gathering evidence on the arbitration. "But this is not an easy thing to do, as such arbitration generally doesn't have documents."
According to forensic experts, the chance of finding evidence of rape becomes slim after 24 hours of the incident.
One of the arbitrators, Mamun Master, admitted to The Daily Star that they held the arbitration unlawfully, as only a court can deal with a rape case.
The victim would be given due compensation, he claimed.
The arbitration reminds one of the story of Elena, a 15-year-old girl from Shariatpur, who was whipped to death upon a religious edict after she was raped by a neighbour in 2011.