A rape case has been filed against Hefazat-e-Islam leader Mamunul Haque with Sonargaon police station in Narayanganj.
Jannat Ara Jharna, who Mamunul claimed to be his second wife, lodged the case on Friday morning under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, confirmed Additional Superintendent of Police (Administration) Mostafizur Rahman.
The case was filed three days after Detective Branch of police rescued Jharna from a house in Dhaka's Mohammadpur area.
She was reportedly detained at the house, which belongs to Mamunul's sister Dilruba, since the incident with Mamunul at a resort in Sonargaon on April 3.
Waliur Rahman, Jharna's father, filed a general diary (GD) with Kalabagan police station on April 26, as he had been unable to locate his daughter since news of the resort incident broke out.
Besides, Abdur Rahman, Jharna's son with her former husband, filed another GD with Paltan police station on April 11.
Since the resort incident, although the Hefazat leader claimed Jharna as her second wife, she did not mention herself as his wife in the case document.
What the case statement says
According to the case statement, Jharna got acquainted with Mamunul in 2005 as he was a close friend of her former husband Maulana Shahidul Islam.
Before meeting Mamunul, the couple was leading a happy life.
Mamunul used to come freely at their house and played various tricks to make their marital life toxic.
At one stage, based on evil counsel of Mamunul, the couple (Jharna and Shahidul) got divorced on August 10, 2018.
After the divorce, Mamunul allured her to come to Dhaka and keeping trust in him, Jharna did so.
"At one stage, he established a physical relationship with me alluring about marriage."
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During the last two years, he took her different hotels and resorts in Dhaka and adjacent areas in the name of visiting places where Mamunul spent time with Jharna promising her marriage.
"When I talked about marriage, he was wasting time by giving assurance," she said.
Mamunul took her to Sonargaon resort on April 3 and raped her there again.
Local people detained them at the resort while followers of Mamunul attacked the resort and took them away, according to the case document.
After the incident, Mamunul kept her confined illegally in the house of an acquaintance and did not allow her to contact with her parents and children.
"Later, I tactfully informed my eldest son Abdur Rahman about my condition and asked him to take legal step to rescue me from captivity."
When the DB police rescued Jharna on April 27, she came to know that her father already made a general diary with Kalabagan police station in the capital to rescue her.
"The police rescued and handed me over to my father."
She faced threats from the followers of Mamunul and consulted with her family and relatives and thus it got delayed to file a complaint, the case statement added.
In another development, while talking to the media, Jharna said Mamunul had been deceiving her for long time and she demanded justice.
Mamunul now on remand
Police arrested Mamunul on April 18 from Mohammadpur Jamia Rahmania Arabia Madrasa in Dhaka.
On April 19, a Dhaka court placed him on seven-day remand in a case filed with Mohammadpur police station in 2020.
After the expiry of the remand, he was put on seven-day remand afresh in two cases lodged over Hefazat's mayhem in the capital in May 2013 and March 2021.
The cases were filed with Motijheel and Paltan police stations respectively.
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