DOT Desk:[2] A physically-challenged woman, who had to sell her newborn due to poverty, got back the baby with the help of the Aditmari Upazial Nirbahi Officer (UNO) on Friday,reports UNB.
[3] UNO Mohammad Mansur Uddin handed over the baby to Hasina Begum, 35, at night and assured her of providing a house and government allowance.
[4] Sources said Hasina Begum, daughter of Azizar Rahman of Noyatari village in Aditmari upazila, was married off to Joktar Ali of Teparhat village 18-20 years ago. Hasina was the second wife of Joktar.
[5] Hasina returned to her father’s house a few days after her marriage and has been staying there since then maintaining relations with her husband. The couple has two sons and one daughter.
[6] By the time, Hasina managed to marry off her daughter. She used to bear her family expenses working as a day-labourer with her two sons—Hasan and Russel.
[7] On Tuesday, Hasina gave birth to a baby boy. But her husband sold the baby to a couple in Rajarhat at Tk 20,000.
After selling the child, Joktar repaid Tk 10,000 he borrowed from others during the ‘lockdown’ enforced due to coronavirus.
On Friday, a news titled ‘Mother sells child at Tk 20,000 due to poverty’ was published in a daily which drew the attention of the Aditmari Upazila Nirbahi Officer.
Later, UNO Mansur Uddin along with officer-in-charge of Aditmari police station Saiful Islam went to Hasina’s house on Friday afternoon and made a phone call to the couple in Rajarhat to bring back the child.
Following the UNO’s request, the couple agreed to return the baby.