Veteran Hindu poet, Saroj Deb brutally attacked [ Gaibandha , Bangladesh ]

[ Reported as seen ]

74 year-old, Veteran Hindu poet Saroj Deb was brutally attacked and beaten by 35 year-old, Sazzad Hossain and his co-religionists at Gaibandha district headquarter town of northern Bangladesh.

As per a media report, at that time, poet Saroj Deb was staying at his house in the eastern part of Gaibandha town. Local Sazzad Hossain & his gang entered poet’s home with weapons around 9:30 am on Friday. The men then kept looking for the poet’s son Shuvomoy Deb Joy while hurling abuses at them. When Saroj Deb protested, they attacked him. When his daughter-in-law came forward to save the poet, she was also attacked. The poet then filed a case at the local police station in this connection.

Deb narrated his ordeal to the media, he said, “Sazzad threw me to the ground. He did not listen to my pleas to stop beating me. Later, when he wanted to hit me on the head with an iron rod, I stopped it with my hand. As a result my hand was injured and started bleeding. When I went to the police station in the afternoon after having treatment at the hospital, the police initially did not want to take the case. Under the pressure of higher authorities, finally police registered the case.”

The media report further mentioned that the police did not register the case initially, as they found the allegations to be false.

Poet Saroj Deb received his master’s degree from the Bengali Department of Rajshahi University in 1973. After coming to Gaibandha, he started writing poems about the lives of marginalized people. So far the number of his poetry books is eight. National newspapers published supplement on the life and literary works of poet Saroj Deb.