SUJANKATHI, Bangladesh — A bail order in Bangladesh has impeded police from rescuing a Christian girl who was abducted and forced to convert to Islam and marry one of her kidnappers, according to police.
Four Muslim men abducted eighth-grade student Silvia Merry Sarker on July 30 as she made her way home from school in west Sujankathi village, under Agoiljhara police jurisdiction, in Barisal district in southern Bangladesh, according to her father, Julian Sarker. Filing a case under the Women and Children Repression Act against Al-Amin Faria, 24; Shamim Faria, 22; Sahadat Faria, 20; and Sattar Faria, 50, Sarker charges that the men abducted his daughter initially to “indulge Al-Amin Faria’s evil desire.” Later she was forced to convert to Islam and marry Al-Amin Faria, which Sarker said was part of an attempt to take over his land and property.
Local police inspector Ashok Kumar Nandi said police were continuing efforts to arrest the kidnappers but cannot find them, as the unusually early bail order had blocked their efforts.
“There are four names as prime suspects in the case,” Nandi said. “We arrested three of them, but the court released them on bail. If the court had given them to us on remand, we might have found the girl or at least we would get much information to rescue the girl.”
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