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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In Bangladesh at the time of ‘crime’, yet held in Tihar for years -Pritha Chatterjee

In Bangladesh at the time of ‘crime’, yet held in Tihar for years -Pritha Chatterjee

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published Published on Oct 11, 2012   modified Modified on Oct 11, 2012
-The Indian Express

The Bangladesh High Commission has complained to the Indian government that two Bangladeshi citizens have been implicated in crimes committed in Delhi when they weren’t even in India.

The two Bangladeshis, aged 22 and 60, have been held as undertrials in Tihar jail for nearly four and three years respectively. According to documents presented in two Delhi courts, both men arrived in India several months after their alleged crimes — a murder in one case, involvement in a robbery in the other — were committed.

In two letters written to the ministries of external affairs and home on August 3 and September 27 this year, the Bangladesh High Commission has sought help to ensure “early release and repatriation of the ill-fated individuals”.

The September 27 letter said, “Indeed both of them came to India later to the commission of offences, but they are miserably suffering from criminal charges being imposed illegitimately. It is to note that the High Commission of India, Dhaka, has recently confirmed the issuance of visas for them — which substantiates their innocence without an iota of doubt. Surely, they are the scapegoat of others’ offence, being victimised by the evil quarters.”

The Bangladeshi authorities requested the ministries to “kindly convey the message urgently to the concerned authority, in order to secure the human rights of the ill- fated individuals from an endless and unfair sufferings”.

Papers, including FIRs and chargesheets, before the courts show Badol Farazi, 22, is accused of murdering an elderly woman at her home in Amar Colony on May 6, 2008, even though he got a month’s visa to visit India only on July 9 of that year.

Farazi has pleaded that he was in Bangladesh on the date of the murder, and was arrested at the Benapole immigration checkpost while entering India on July 13, 2008.

The other man, 60-year-old Abu Ishaque Howaldar, came to India twice on medical visas issued on January 19 and May 10, 2010, and was treated for skin eczema at a clinic in Pitampura. He was arrested on August 9, 2010 in connection with a robbery committed in East of Kailash on the night of December 16-17, 2009.

The Bangladesh High Commission wrote to their Indian counterparts in Dhaka on September 14 and 20, 2012, seeking the details of visas issued to the two men. The first secretary (consular) at the Indian high commission in Dhaka replied with the details on September 23.

Md Nazibur Rahman, minister (consular) at the Bangladesh High Commission said, “We approached our Indian counterparts in Dhaka to confirm the date of issuance of visas, and submitted the necessary documents before the courts and to Indian authorities. We hope this matter will be taken up at the earliest.”

Additional Commissioner of Police (South East) Ajay Chaudhary said, “The letter has not come to us yet. We will definitely look into the matter and take proper action, if necessary.”

Farazi has told the court that the chargesheet names the murdered woman’s domestic help, “Badal (Sain) Singh”, as the accused. In a letter written to former president Pratibha Patil, Farazi said, “I am not Badal Singh. I am Badol Farazi and a Muslim, whereas the person against whom the case has been registered is a Hindu.”

Attendance records from Farazi’s school in Bangladesh, the T-A Faruque High School in Badarghat, show him to be present in school on May 6, 2008, (Farazi was 18 then) when he is alleged to have killed the elderly woman.

Lawyers for Howaldar have argued that eyewitnesses to the December 16-17, 2009 robbery in East of Kailash have described all four accused as youths aged 20-22, whereas Howaldar is visibly older.

The judgment in Howaldar’s case is due on October 25. The next hearing in Farazi’s case is on the same date.

The Indian Express, 11 October, 2012, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/in-bangladesh-at-the-time-of--crime--yet-held-in-tihar-for-years/1015120/


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