Case filed under Digital Security Act against woman who accused Rajshahi MP of forced abortion

A case has been filed against Ayesha Akter, the woman who claiming to be the wife of Rajshahi-4 (Bagmara) constituency’s member of parliament Enamul Huque had accused him of deception and forceful abortion of her foetus.

The MP’s assistant personal secretary and vice chairman of Bagmara upazila parishad, Asaduzzaman, filed the case under the Digital Security Act with Bagmara police station on Friday.

According to the case statement, Ayesha demanded Tk 10 million extortion from Enamul to pay her loan and spread propaganda on Facebook to malign the lawmaker’s image.

Earlier, on 1 June, Ayesha wrote a status on Facebook saying the MP’s followers were threatening to send her to jail in forged cases. “The followers of the MP have been threatening to kill me. They are saying I’d be thrown in jail.”

When asked over the case, Bagmara police station officer-in-charge Ataur Rahman refrained from any comments. Instead he asked, “How did you come to know the secret?”

Plaintiff Asaduzzaman also declined to comment.

A district police member, however, confirmed Prothom Alo that a team of police has been conducting drives across the city to arrest the accused.

According to Ayesha Akter’s Facebook posts, she is an entrepreneur from Terokhadia of Rajshahi. She met Enamul in 2012 and got married at her parental residence in Baghmara on 30 April 2013. The marriage was allegedly not registered at the behest of the MP.

Ayesha stated she had video clips and photos of the marriage ceremony. She claimed she got pregnant in 2015, but Enamul made her abort the foetus as it was unwanted for him before the election.

Earlier, Enamul told Prothom Alo that he had divorced her on 23 April.