In 2011, the incident of rape of a 5-year-old child in the Sabujbagh area of the capital caused a stir across the country. How is that little baby? Investigation finds that she lost the power to speak after that brutal incident. The speech-impaired girl is now fighting a brutal life. And, that rapist Nazmus Saquib is leading a lavish life in the USA.
The little child did not get justice even after taking legal steps. The rapist’s family wanted to manage the child’s father in exchange for money. But the victim’s family wanted nothing but justice. They also filed a case. However, the rapist Najmus Saquib escaped the country with the power of his influential father Jalilul Azam.
According to an investigation, the child lived with her family in a shanty at 28 Mayakanan of Sabujbagh area in the capital’s Basabo. The father of the victim used to drive a CNG-run auto bike for rent. On the day, Nazmus Saquib, a drug addict, lured the small child with chocolates to take to his home at 28 Mayakanan. Then he took her to the roof and raped her several times. At one stage, Nazmus Shaquib left the child in the garage on the ground floor when excessive bleeding started. Then Bachchu Mia, the caretaker of the house, came forward after hearing the child’s cry. Seeing the pathetic condition of the child, the local people gathered around the house. Later the child described the whole brutal incident.
After this incident, Najmus Sakquib’s father Jalilul Azam along with the child’s father first took her to Mugda Hospital. Later Mugda Hospital authorities transferred the child to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (MDCH) when her situation deteriorated. After about 28 days of treatment at DMCH, the child survived but became speech impaired. The child lost the power to speak due to rape, excessive stress and excessive blood loss, according to the medical report.
To hide the incident at that time, Nazmus Sakib’s maternal uncle Abu Dayan and his father Jalilul Azam wanted to convince the girl’s family by giving money to cover up the matter. But the child’s father wanted justice rather than taking money. The victim’s father filed a rape case against rapist Saquib with Sabujbagh police station, ignoring the bloodshot eyes of Sakib’s influential father and uncle.
Nazmus Saquib was on the run for some time after the case. At one stage, he left the country and is now leading a lavish life in the United States of America (USA). Sitting there, the alleged rapist is spreading various lies and rumours against esteemed personalities of Bangladesh through his so-called IP TV. He introduces himself as the editor of Nagorik TV.
It was found that the house where the child’s family used to live is no longer there. The family left the area three years after the rape incident as they could not bear the stigma of rape.
Mobashwer Hossain, a local resident said, ‘The child’s family eventually left the area due to public shame. Because, everyone knows the child was the rape victim of Najmus Sakib.’
The family lives in a tin shed house of Amir Uddin in the lane behind the Rampura TV building. The family with two daughters and a son survives in a two-room house. The father of the raped child did not want to talk at first after the reporter was identified as a journalist but later started crying, according to the investigation.
Pointing to the girl sitting in the next room, he said, “The rapist Nazmus Sakib has robbed happiness of my family.” “My healthy daughter could not bear the stress of the incident and lost the power to speak. She can’t speak after that incident. After a month of treatment, she survived. Seeing such suffering of my daughter, my heart breaks. Najmus Saquib has ended my daughter’s life,’ he added with an angry voice.
Incidentally, Nazmus Saquib, who is used to perverted sexual behaviour, also raped his cousin Kazi Rubaiya. After that, when Rubaiya became pregnant, Nazmus Sakib married her under family pressure. Apart from this, several allegations of sexual abuse against Najmus Saquib in the area including his grandmother. Khilgaon, Sabujbagh and Motijheel police stations have multiple cases and general diaries also. Nazmus Saquib and his gang also gang-raped the wife of Rezaul Karim of Daudkandi, Comilla, a tenant of Nazmus Saquib’s Basabor house. The husband and wife left the area after the incident in 2010. Fearing public shame, they filed no cases against the serial rapist. They left home silently at that time. The victim’s husband Rezaul now lives in the Pirer Bagh area of Mirpur.
He said, ‘Nazmus Saquib is settled in the USA and runs so called TV shows on YouTube. I don’t want to remember that day anymore. My wife tries to commit suicide when she remembers her sexual abuse. We are somehow living with the pain the crime.’
