[Bangla Daily Star] The High Court on Tuesday summoned nine people including a union parishad chairman and an officer-in charge of Habiganj to explain their role over the suicide of a housewife and her two children by jumping under a train.
They will have to appear before the court on August 23 to place their statements on whether they insisted the woman to commit suicide.
Ferdausi Akhter, 35, and her two children died as she jumped under the train with her four kids in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj Monday morning. The two others sustained severe injuries.
It was alleged that village arbitrators brought allegation against Ferdausi, wife of a Saudi expatriate,
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that she had an illicit relation with one Abdul Kadir.
The arbitrators at an arbitration on Sunday rebuked Ferdausi and asked her to leave the village. Later, she along with her four children jumped under the train.
The HC bench on Tuesday passed the suo moto order following a report published on a Bangla national daily on Tuesday stating that a woman along with her four children jumped under the train as she could not bear the insult.
The court also issued a rule upon the local administration to explain why it should not be directed to prosecute the persons involved in insisting Ferdausi to commit suicide.
The persons who are asked to appear before the court are: Atikur Rahman, chairman of Andiura union in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj, Mainul Chowdhury, officer-in-charge of Madhappur Police Station, sub inspectors Ehsanul Haque and Md Yasin, Monowar, in-charge of Shahapur Railway Police Box, Tapan Dey, a union parishad member, Malay Mia, a former union parishad member, and arbitrators Karim Khan and Abdur Rahman. 
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