Unmarried Woman Caned Over Paternity Claim In Bangladesh

Memories of the grainy video of a teenage girl being publicly flogged in Swat in Pakistan came rushing back when a 22-year-old unmarried woman in Bangladesh was reportedly caned 39 times for alleging a neighbor was the father of her son.

The woman has been hospitalized and is battling for her life.

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The incident took place in Comilla, situated 70 kilometres east of Dhaka, The News reports.

According to the sources, local Islamic clerics ordered the woman to appear before a make shift court after she alleged that her neighbour had fathered her six-year-old son.

But the man denied having any relationship with her.

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"He held a Koran in one hand and swore to the village clerics that he was not the father of the boy. The village court found him not guilty. They also issued a fatwa that the woman should be caned 39 times for lying," sources said.

Taking a serious note of the shameful incident, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ordered an enquiry.

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Police has arrested the two clerics who issued the fatwa, and DNA testing has been arranged to determine the father of the child.

Source-ANI
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