'Mom, don't you talk to me'
Photo: Collected
The frozen body of the girl whom Najma Akhtar left the house in the morning to go to work is lying in the morgue. The autopsy will begin shortly. How can this mother accept that the lovely girl who was enjoying in the house in just a few hours will be subjected to such brutality?
Sitting outside the house where the body was being dissected, this woman was lamenting in disbelief, 'Mom, are you really real? Mother don't you talk to me.'
On Sunday (September 17) afternoon, mother Najma Akhtar was found in front of Chattogram Medical College (CMCH) hospital's emergency department. Her daughter Tanha Akhtar Maria was brutally murdered.
Police recovered Tanha's body around 11 am on Sunday. Tanha studied at a Noorani madrasa in the area of Chander's father's house
A 22-year-old Rakibul Islam Munna has been arrested by the police in this incident. Son of late Yusuf of Coxshahi Tika Palli, Cox's Bazar. But he also lived in the same area as Chandar's father's house.
Tanha's father. Bak's profession is a rickshaw driver and mother works in a garment factory. Both left home every morning due to work. Tanha therefore lived alone at home.
On Sunday morning, after Tanha's parents went to work, a neighbor woman saw the door of the house closed and peeked inside. At that time, Munna ran away from the house after realizing that someone was watching. If in doubt, the woman went inside the house. At that time, she saw Tanha lying dead on the bed with her hands and feet tied, and she informed the other neighbors.
Nazma Akhter rushed home from the factory after receiving the news of the recovery of her daughter's body. Later, Tanha's body was taken to CMC Hospital for post-mortem. Najma also ran to the hospital following her daughter's body.
On a Sunday afternoon, the emergency department of the hospital was crowded as always. Rush of patients and relatives and sirens of ambulances. In the meantime, Najma was sitting on the sidewalk and lamenting. People around came and tried to console here. But, this mother could not calm down.
Tanha was the only child of her parents. It is like all the light in the world of lack. Najma can't imagine that that girl will disappear from her eyes like this.
Najma fondly called Tanha 'Lalchan Pakhi'. Calling that name, this woman was saying, 'How hard I raised you. He beat you so hard. How can I bear it?'
Najma wants the maximum punishment for the youth arrested on the charge of killing Tanha. Addressing the young man, he said, 'We are poor people. Why did you look at poor people?'
After the post-mortem, the police showed Tanha's body to the mother. Najma hugged the body to her chest and kept saying, 'I used to sleep with you on my chest every day. Who will I hug from today, mother?
A little before dusk, the relatives rushed home with Tanha's body in a motor van. Sitting next to the little girl's body, the mother calmly remembers the various memories surrounding the girl.
Even before the van goes down the road, the lament comes to the ears, 'Mom, don't you talk to me!'
