Shafiqul Arrested for Secretly Recording a Migrant Worker’s Wife While She Was Bathing and Blackmailing Her

❐ District Representative

Police have arrested a cloth merchant named Shafiqul Islam (35) on charges of harassing and blackmailing a housewife by secretly recording a video of her bathing in Melandha, Jamalpur.

He was arrested on Saturday afternoon, August 1st.

The arrested Shafiqul Islam is a resident of Deolabari Sardarpara area of ​​Nangla Union of the upazila. He is a cloth merchant at the local Jinnah Market.

According to the police and the case report, on July 29, around 8 pm, the housewife was taking a bath after finishing her household chores in a bathroom on the third floor of the Janata Bank building in Melanda Bazaar. At that time, Shafiqul cleverly recorded it on his mobile phone. Later, on the pretext of this video, the accused started intimidating and harassing the housewife in various ways.

Shafiqul Islam even tried to have a physical relationship. But after failing, at one point he sent the video to the housewife’s Saudi expatriate husband through various apps, mentally harassing him, and tried to humiliate him socially by sending it to his relatives.

Although the matter was initially kept secret out of concern for her honor and dignity, the victim housewife later filed a case with the Melandah Police Station after consulting with her family.

ATM Mahmudul Haque, officer-in-charge (OC) of Melandah Police Station, said that the accused was arrested after receiving the complaint and handed over to the court. The police have seized the mobile phone used in the incident as evidence.

During initial interrogation, accused Shafiqul Islam confessed to his crime and said he had made a ‘mistake’.