, June 19 -- month-old twin sisters - Mehrin and Naurin - sleep peacefully in their grandmother's arms, unaware of the hardship that has overshadowed their short lives.

Their mother, Rina Khatun of Maheshpur upazila in Jhenaidah, claims that her husband divorced her after she gave birth to the twin girls.

However, twins' father Rakibul Islam rejected Rina's allegations, describing them as "false and baseless" and instead claiming that Rina is involved in a "marriage trade" for money and that she had married four times earlier.

"Is giving birth to girls a crime?" asked Rina, struggling to hold back tears while speaking about the ordeal she says began during her pregnancy.

She said she married Rakibul Islam of Purana Kola village about ...