Justice lost in loopholes of the law

In the end, all we know is that the five-months-pregnant Honufa Begum was caught in a fire at her husband's Uttara residence on a certain night, and she died at her father’s home in Narsingdi 60 hours later.

That Honufa's husband Monir Hossain tied her up, poured kerosene on the body before setting her on fire, as her father said in the complaint lodged with the Uttara police station, could not be proven in the court.

The victim's father also said that 12 days prior to that fateful night Monir had threatened to kill her if dowry of Tk 10,000 was not paid.