Rumana Monzur, the Dhaka University teacher who was sent to India for treatment after being brutally tortured by her husband, will return home Monday as eye specialists in India found no hope for her eyes, the family members said.

Dhaka University Assistant Professor Rumana Manzur is expected to return from India tomorrow as doctors there have said there is little chance for her to get back eyesight, family sources said.

A  woman mercilessly tortured her minor aged maid servant and  threw acid on her body.

Police intercepted and recovered the body of a teenage domestic help as her employers secretly arranged her burial in Birganj upazila after she succumbed to burn injuries on Wednesday.

Rumana Manzur, the Dhaka University teacher who was brutally assaulted by her husband, is coming back home as doctors in India could not give much hope about her eyes, said family sources.

Two housewives have been tortured to death allegedly by their husbands in two separate incidents in the district.

Police yesterday arrested Hasan Sayeed Sumon, who tortured and damaged the eyes of his wife Rumana Manzur, an assistant professor of Dhaka University, 10 days ago.

Two female domestic helps and a housewife allegedly committed suicide in the city’s Mohammadpur, Kamrangir Char and Hazaribagh yesterday.

“He pushed his fingers into my eyes,” a battered wife told newsmen yesterday how her sadistic husband made her suffer beyond belief, “And dragged me by my hair on the floor.”

The recent case of a teacher of Dhaka University being physically assaulted by her husband has caused public outrage among members of civil society.

Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique yesterday urged law enforcement agencies to take action against the man who critically assaulted his wife, a DU teacher.

A teacher of Dhaka University was critically injured and lost an eye as her husband brutally beat her up a few days ago.

A domestic help was tortured allegedly by her employer at Uttar Kafrul in the city yesterday afternoon

Twenty nine women lost their lives for dowry, while six others became the subject of repression in May, according to the monthly documentation report of Bangladesh Society for the Enforcement of Human Rights, released Wednesday.

A woman was allegedly beaten to death by her husband following an unspecified family feud in Kadomtoli of the city yesterday.