Traumatised, she learns her world has gone dark
Sheuli Akhter did not bow to the pressure of her husband for money and so his brutality led to her losing eyesight forever.
The 40-year-old yesterday came to know that she would not see the world for the rest of her life after doctors conducted surgery on both her eyes for four hours at National Institute of Ophthalmology in the capital.
Her husband slashed her eyes with a knife on Thursday over an altercation.
"She was traumatised by the news," said Prof Shawkat Ara Shakoor Milly of the hospital where she was brought early Friday from Jamaibazar in Tongi of Gazipur.
"Both her eyes were badly damaged. We had to clean up the remaining eye-parts to prevent infection and keep the shape of the eyes intact,” Shawkat said.
Artificial eyes will be placed in the empty sockets but those will not enable her to see, the doctor added.
On the fateful day, Sheuli's spouse Jewel Hasan tied her hands behind her and then gagged her before beating her up. At one point of the torture, he slashed her eyes with a knife.
Jewel is her second husband who wanted her to sell the property she got from her first marriage and give the money to him, Sheuli said. He had been demanding money from her since their marriage five years back.
Sheuli has two children from her previous marriage, police said.
Jewel wanted Sheuli's daughter to live with them so that he could grab her share of the property as well, victim's relatives told The Daily Star.
As Sheuli refused and sent her daughter to live with her maternal grandparents in Dinajpur, he became violent.
Sheuli married Jewel after the death of her first husband, police said. Jewel is a cousin of her late husband.
According to relatives, her first husband was murdered in 2009. Both Sheuli and Jewel spent a year in prison for their alleged involvement in the murder and came out on bail five years ago.
Jewel is an accused in 10 cases, including murder, filed with Tongi Police Station, said Officer-in-Charge Firoz Talukder by phone. The accused is on the run now, he added.
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