This is the story of Mila Bakta
(age 8), a school student of Class II at Mandra Government Primary School and
also daughter of Mr. Milan Bakta or a minority Hindu individual living in the
village of Mandra within the jurisdiction of the police station of Kotalipara
in the district of Gopalgunj amid Bangladesh. The innocent girl became victim
of a brutal rape perpetrated by Sohag Sheikh (age 20), son of Sekandar Ali
Shiekh inhabiting the same village, on February 27. It has come to knowledge that
Sohag Sheikh used to harass the girl for months and on the fateful day at 3.45
pm, Mila Bakta was tempted by the felon through a biscuit. Sohag promised her more
biscuits only if she listened to him. When she agreed, Mila was taken to a residence
and was raped brutally. Nevertheless, it must also be pointed out that it was not
similar to any ordinary rape. On the word of her father, Mila’s face was anointed
by the semen of Sohag Sheikh and as per investigators, it was nothing else save
for the most brutal evidence of religious intolerance. She was discovered hours
later by her aggrieved parents, neighbors and was both unconscious and bleeding
profusely then.
Mila Bakta, as a result, was
admitted to the Health Complex
at Gopalgunj in close proximity and when this report is being written, she is
the hospital. Even if locals got hold of Sohag Sheikh, influential Islamists
in the locality precluded Hindus from filing an official complaint to the local
police station. While this
ruckus was going on, Sohag Sheikh vanished literally. Moreover, Hindus
were warned of dire consequences if they dared to proceed to the police
station. But defying all these threats parents of Mila Bakta, with the help of
local people, registered a First
Information Report (F.I.R) – Case No. 9, under Section 9(1) of Women and
Children Repression Act, 2000, on February 28, 2014 - to the police station of
Kotalipara. The culprit was taken into custody after 15 days back. Even if
Sohag Sheikh is behind bars yet, efforts to release him and also warning to
Hindus there by radical Muslims cease to exist.
On
the other hand, on March 15, in the night, the city of Larkana, located in the
north western part of Sindh province in Pakistan, witnessed a deadly assault on
a Hindu temple when Muslims in large numbers burnt down the religious shrine claiming
the desecration of al-Qur'an by a local Hindu. It has come to knowledge, as
maintained by Muslims in the environs of Larkana, Surjeet Kumar, a local Hindu
individual, had set fire to pages of al-Qur'an violating the rigorous blasphemy
laws prevailing the entire country. However, lots of people including human rights
activists have termed the allegation as baseless. In accordance with them, it’s
beyond imagination of a member of the minuscule minority community of Hindus to
defile al-Qur'an as they know very well of the vicious outcome in such cases. What
is more, some term the entire incident as fallout of an evil design to settle
personal scores and there have been myriad such instances across the country by
now.
Well, none could also stop irate Islamists from exchanging
blows with police in the towns of Dera Murad Jamali and Osta Muhammad located
in the southwestern province of Baluchistan, following the ostensible blasphemy
of al-Qur'an. While four shops of Hindus were set in flames in protest, one policeman
along with two protestors were found injured.
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