Neel Saha, murdered for objecting against daughter’s eve-teasing [ Rajshahi, Bangladesh ]

[ Reported as seen ]

On August 12, a Hindu man Neel Madhav Saha was beaten and stabbed because he objected to the eve-teasing of his daughter by a radical Islamist. The incident took place at the Vishwa Vidyalaya railway station in Rajshahi, Bangladesh.

Reportedly, the victim was on her to her coaching centre when she was harassed by two men. The Muslim men were identified as Miraj alias Irfan Khan and Prince. The victim is a student of the Rajshahi Government Women’s College.

She was rescued by a man named Emon, who intervened and helped her reach the coaching centre. On the same evening, Miraj and Prince attacked the 46-year-old father of the victim, Neel Madhav Saha. The Muslim men engulfed Madhav in a heated verbal attack and then stabbed with a knife and hit on the head with a hammer at around 7 pm.

While speaking to the media, Saha said, “They used to harass my daughter. Emon is the friend of the accused Prince. When Emon tried to stop the accused, he was intimidated.”

He further added, “Prince told me that we will have to pay him every month if we wanted to live. Else, we will have you get our daughter married to him.” When the victim’s father confronted him about his objectionable remarks, he was stabbed

“Miraj hit on my head with a hammer. They held me by my vest and legs…They wanted to take my life,” the victim’s father narrated. He named Mamun, Farad, Reham, Akher and Robin for carrying out a deadly assault on him.

The men looted money from his pocket, besides the chain of his wife. With blood oozing out of his wounds, he went to the nearby police station. But it was in vain. He was admitted to the nearby hospital for immediate medical attention.

According to the victim’s father,  the hospital authorities and the police of laxity in taking action. When Saha first went to the Chandrima police station, the cops refused to register a case and asked him to receive treatment first.

Afterwards, they told him to visit the Motihar police stations. The cops refused to register a FIR and claimed that the case fell under the jurisdiction of the Railway Police Force. Sadly, they too refused to entertain him.