In a tragic turn of events, a man from Bangladesh forcibly shaved his wife¡¯s head after finding a hair in his breakfast. The man has been arrested. Meanwhile, rights groups warned violence against women was rising in the conservative Muslim nation.??
Police raided a village in the northwestern district of Joypurhat and arrested Bablu Mondal, after villagers told officers about the incident. "He found a human hair on the rice and milk breakfast his wife prepared for him," local police chief Shahriar Khan told AFP.
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"He became angry seeing the hair and blamed the wife. He then took a blade and forcibly shaved the head of the wife," he said. Khan said Bablu was charged with ¡®voluntarily causing grievous hurt¡¯. The offence carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in jail and also for ¡®outraging modesty¡¯ of his 23-year-old wife.?
The incident highlights growing repression of women in Bangladesh and all the conservative Muslim nations. According to the local rights group Ain O Salish Kendra, there were an average three rapes a day in the first six months of the year.?
In another tragic incident,?a 26-year-old man divorced his 23-year-old wife. He went to the rooftop and shouted triple talaq because she could not fulfill his demand for dowry.?