A 30-year-old Bagerhat woman was garlanded with shoes and then tortured reportedly by a UP member with a bamboo twig accusing her of having an extramarital affair with a close relative.
The inhuman incident came in the limelight as a video of the vicious assault has gone viral on Facebook.
Villagers said the incident occurred at Singati village in Mollahat upazila of Bagerhat and the video was uploaded on social media the following day.
Kawsar Chowdhury, member of Ward No-1 of Chunkhola Union Parishad, was said to be the man beating the woman.
The video shows another man who was whirling the helpless woman while Kawsar was beating her with a bamboo twig encircled by onlookers.
According to her neighbours, the ill-fated housewife lives alone with her four children at the village as her husband is a migrant worker.
On Tuesday morning, the UP member along with his cohorts went to her house and verbally abused her alleging that she has an illicit relation with her daughter’s father-in-law.
The UP member and his abettors then garlanded her with their shoes and tortured her, witnesses said.
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Shocked by the incident, the woman had left the village to take shelter in an unknown place. She later came back and accused Sarwar of harassing her viciously.
The housewife also blamed some of her neighbours for the attack on her.