Lakshmipur, May 11 -- A court in Lakshmipur on Monday sent a woman to jail in connection with a case, forcing her to take her infant child with her.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Court Shah Jamal passed the order when the woman, Farhana Akter Shilpi, along with another accused, Jahir Uddin, appeared before it, said court official Delwar Hossain.

Shilpi's infant son Siam also accompanied his mother to Lakshmipur District Jail.

Jailer Nur Mohammad Sohel confirmed that Shilpi and her young child were taken to the jail in the afternoon.

Meanwhile, Shilpi's two other children - Class-V student Shipon Hossain, 10, and second-grader Tamanna Akter, 8 - were seen standing outside the jail gate in their school uniforms, waiting for their mother. ...