The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Mahmuda Aktar Topi, a housewife, who was seriously injured in an acid attack, succumbed at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday morning.

Topi's drug addict husband, Al Mamun, who was allegedly involved in hurling nitric acid on his wife, was taken to a three-day remand of police for interrogation yesterday.

Family sources said Mamun, Scientific Officer of Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute (BLRI) at Savar, used to inflict inhuman torture on his wife as Topi tried to stop him from taking drugs. They lived at an apartment on the BLRI campus at Savar. Being injured in Mamun's beatings, Topi took treatment at Savar Upazila Health Complex on several occasions. She tried her best to refrain her husband from taking drugs, but all her attempts went in vain. Husband Mamun, his friend Munna and brother-in-law Wahed Ali put acid on Topi and her two-year-old baby boy Tamim in the early morning on November 5. Before that Mamun and his relatives beat Topi mercilessly. They kicked, punched and slammed Topi inside the house. Blood was coming out from Topi's private part as Mamun kicked on her lower abdomen.

Later, both the mother and child were admitted to the Burn Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital on the same day. Topi died Friday morning. Topi died yesterday morning fighting for life for six days on the hospital bed.

When contacted, investigation officer Sub Inspector Alim of Savar Police Station said the husband Mamun was taken on a three-day remand for interrogation in connection with a case filed earlier.