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News No. 106/2013,
Sunday, September 15, 2013
A MENTALLY challenged
teenage girl has been reportedly raped by a Bengali settler Ojha or quack in
Lanugdu, Rangamati.
The 13-year old, who
has also been suffering from epilepsy, was raped on 11 September by Zahir Uddin
aka ‘Hobu Shah’, an Ojha or quack, who took her to a banana
plantation to ‘exorcise her of evil spirits’.
The girl’s father,
Protyek Kumar Chakma, a resident of Purbo Rongipara village under Bogachatar
Union, invited Zahir, 40, of East Rongipara Bangali Para, on 10 September to
his home when the latter, introducing himself as an Ojha, told
him that he could cure his daughter’s illness.
Zahir began his
treatment at midnight by chanting incantations over her, and from midnight to 2am he
offered three rounds of spells and incantations and stayed the night there.
At 9 in the morning,
he gave the same treatment once again and then asked the girl to be bathed in
the stream water.
When she was brought
to him again after bathing her, Zahir said he would now have to take the girl
alone to an intersection to cast a spell on her.
After Protyek Kumar
agreed, Zahir took her to a banana plantation, half a kilometer from the house,
raped her, and then fled.
2-3 hours after the
incident, the girl’s father saw her on the road, crying. He brought her home
and she told what the Ojha had done to her.
On 13 September,
Protyek Kumar filed a case against Zahir, the fake sorcerer, under the Women
and Children Repression Prevention Act.
Sub-inspector of
Longudu police station, Anjan Kumr Dey, said, ‘The girl has undergone medical
test in Ramgamati and we are expecting the report soon. The rapist, Zahir, is
absconding, but we are trying to arrest him.’
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