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INDIA: BSF strikes again, this time, knifing a person

INDIA: BSF strikes again, this time, knifing a person — Asian Human Rights Commission

October 28, 2011

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-224-2011

28 October 2011
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INDIA: BSF strikes again, this time, knifing a person

ISSUES: Torture; inhuman and degrading punishment; corruption; impunity
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Dear friends,

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has once again received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation working in West Bengal, concerning the brutality practiced by the Border Security Force (BSF) against civilians living along the Indo-Bangladesh border. In this instance, the BSF was in fact assisting the cross-border smuggling gang of which the victim was part of, to illegally traffic cattle from India to Bangladesh, allegedly after accepting bribes. However in a dispute between the smugglers and the BSF, and the BSF fired shots injuring a boy. Later the BSF knifed the victim and left him for dead. Villagers however helped the victim to illegally cross over to Bangladesh and seek treatment. The present whereabouts of the victim is however not known.

The case once again establishes corrupt practices of the BSF, and further illuminates the fact that a substantial number of people living along the Indo-Bangladesh border are poor, that despite innumerable number of gruesome atrocities committed by the BSF against the villagers, in particular those etching a living from smuggling, the people are still willing to engage in smuggling, that they have no other means of earning a livelihood. The case also reiterates the fact that unless the West Bengal state government and the central government take immediate and meaningful steps to address the situation, ideally in consultation with the people living in the locality, no improvement could be brought about in the situation. In a different vein the BSF engaging in cross-border smuggling itself is a security threat to the country, which neither the BSF, nor the government could ignore any further.

Despite global reportage of more than 300 similar cases by the AHRC and MASUM over the past seven years, the government has neither shown interest nor proven its capacity to deal with an escalated human and security catastrophe, most of which is the making of the BSF.

CASE NARRATIVE:

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The victim in the case is Mr Abdulla Gazi, son of Mr Chamchel Gazi, aged about 27 years, is a resident of Gunrajpur village, under the jurisdiction of Swarupnagar Police Station in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. The victim lives with his wife, two children and his aged mother. The victim runs the family by working as a farm labourer. MASUM's fact-finding reveals that Gazi also sometimes worked for cross-border smugglers, getting paid for trafficking cattle across the Indo-Bangladesh border.

AHRC-UAC-224-2011-01.pngOn 25 August 2011, at about 3.30 hours, Gazi, having engaged by the smugglers was transporting cattle from India to Bangladesh. It is alleged that the BSF officers stationed at Gunrajpur BSF Border Outpost were assisting the smuggling; in lieu of the bribes they have accepted. The cattle were kept in a shed located between Gunrajpur BSF Border Outpost, gates 14 and 15. Without warning, an altercation erupted between the BSF and the smugglers who were waiting across the border in Bangladesh. Without warning the BSF started firing. As a result, a Bangladeshi boy named Laltu who was in the Indian territory at the time was hit on his leg. Laltu seeking protection ran into a nearby village and the some villagers took him to the hospital.

It is also revealed that during the incident the BSF officers knifed Gazi in his lower abdomen and left him for dead at the spot. A person from the locality, named Mr Mostafa Baidya, son of Mojam Baidya residing in the same village as that of the victim saw the victim and took him to the nearest safe place, which is a village in Bangladesh territory. Then some persons in the village admitted him in a nursing home in Jashore, Bangladesh. Baidya subsequently informed the incident to the victim's wife Ms Selima Gazi. One Mr Khalek Sardar, son of Mr Ebtullya Sardar who also came to know about the incident informed Selima of what had happened.

In the meanwhile Mr Jitendra Singh, Company Commander of 'F' Company, 120 Battalion of the BSF filed a written complaint at Swarupnagar Police Station on 25 August 2011 at 9.15 pm (after about 18 hours of the incident) accusing 1) Mr Laltu Mondal of Bangladesh and 2) Mr Abdulla Gazi based on which Swarup Nagar police registered a case, numbered 216 of 2011. The case was registered for offenses punishable under Sections 147, 148, 149, 186, 353, 332 and 307 of Indian Penal Code 1860 and Section 14 of the Foreigners Act and Section 12 of the Indian Passport Act.

MASUM's fact-finding revealed that a person namely Mr Arshad from Sultanpur, Bangladesh reportedly helped the victim to get treatment and he perhaps know the present whereabouts of Gazi.

However Gazi's wife Selima could not contact her husband till date and she has no clue about the whereabouts of her husband. She even does not know whether he is still alive or not. Selima is poor and hence she does ot have any means to search for her husband in Bangladesh. Selima and the family members of the victim are anxiously waiting for Gazi's return. At present the family of the victim does not have any means to survive and the victim's aged mother has taken up begging to find means to run the family. Selima has lodged a complaint before the Superintendent of Police, North 24 Parganas against the perpetrator BSF personnel, but until now the police have taken no action on the complaint.

SUGGESTED ACTION:
Please write to the authorities listed below asking for their urgent intervention in this case.

The AHRC is also writing a separate letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment calling for an intervention in this case.

To support this appeal, please click here:

SAMPLE LETTER:

Dear __________,

INDIA: The case of BSF knifing a cross-border smuggler and BSF's conduct along the Indo-Bangladesh must be investigated

Name of victim: Mr Abdulla Gazi, son of Mr Chamchel Gazi, aged about 27 years, is a resident of Gunrajpur village, under the jurisdiction of Swarupnagar Police Station in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal
Alleged perpetrators: BSF officers posted at Gunrajpur BSF Border Outpost, gates 14 and 15, North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal state
Date of incident: 25 August 2011
Place of incident: Near Gunrajpur BSF Border Outpost, gates 14 and 15

I am writing to express my concern regarding the case reported to be, once again concerning the atrocities committed by the BSF stationed along the Indo-Bangladesh border.

The victim in the case is Mr Abdulla Gazi, son of Mr Chamchel Gazi, aged about 27 years, is a resident of Gunrajpur village, under the jurisdiction of Swarupnagar Police Station in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. The victim lives with his wife, two children and his aged mother. The victim runs the family by working as a farm labourer. MASUM's fact-finding reveals that Gazi also sometimes worked for cross-border smugglers, getting paid for trafficking cattle across the Indo-Bangladesh border.

On 25 August 2011, at about 3.30 hours, Gazi, having engaged by the smugglers was transporting cattle from India to Bangladesh. It is alleged that the BSF officers stationed at Gunrajpur BSF Border Outpost were assisting the smuggling; in lieu of the bribes they have accepted. The cattle were kept in a shed located between Gunrajpur BSF Border Outpost, gates 14 and 15. Without warning, an altercation erupted between the BSF and the smugglers who were waiting across the border in Bangladesh. Without warning the BSF started firing. As a result, a Bangladeshi boy named Laltu who was in the Indian territory at the time was hit on his leg. Laltu seeking protection ran into a nearby village and the some villagers took him to the hospital.

It is also revealed that during the incident the BSF officers knifed Gazi in his lower abdomen and left him for dead at the spot. A person from the locality, named Mr Mostafa Baidya, son of Mojam Baidya residing in the same village as that of the victim saw the victim and took him to the nearest safe place, which is a village in Bangladesh territory. Then some persons in the village admitted him in a nursing home in Jashore, Bangladesh. Baidya subsequently informed the incident to the victim's wife Ms Selima Gazi. One Mr Khalek Sardar, son of Mr Ebtullya Sardar who also came to know about the incident informed Selima of what had happened.

In the meanwhile Mr Jitendra Singh, Company Commander of 'F' Company, 120 Battalion of the BSF filed a written complaint at Swarupnagar Police Station on 25 August 2011 at 9.15 pm (after about 18 hours of the incident) accusing 1) Mr Laltu Mondal of Bangladesh and 2) Mr Abdulla Gazi based on which Swarup Nagar police registered a case, numbered 216 of 2011. The case was registered for offenses punishable under Sections 147, 148, 149, 186, 353, 332 and 307 of Indian Penal Code 1860 and Section 14 of the Foreigners Act and Section 12 of the Indian Passport Act.

I am informed that MASUM's fact-finding revealed that a person namely Mr Arshad from Sultanpur, Bangladesh reportedly helped the victim to get treatment and he perhaps know the present whereabouts of Gazi.

However Gazi's wife Selima could not contact her husband till date and she has no clue about the whereabouts of her husband. She even does not know whether he is still alive or not. Selima is poor and hence she does ot have any means to search for her husband in Bangladesh. Selima and the family members of the victim are anxiously waiting for Gazi's return. At present the family of the victim does not have any means to survive and the victim's aged mother has taken up begging to find means to run the family. Selima has lodged a complaint before the Superintendent of Police, North 24 Parganas against the perpetrator BSF personnel, but until now the police have taken no action on the complaint.

The case once again establishes corrupt practices of the BSF, and further illuminates the fact that a substantial number of people living along the Indo-Bangladesh border are poor, that despite innumerable number of gruesome atrocities committed by the BSF against the villagers, in particular those etching a living from smuggling, the people are still willing to engage in smuggling, that they have no other means of earning a livelihood. The case also reiterates the fact that unless the West Bengal state government and the central government take immediate and meaningful steps to address the situation, ideally in consultation with the people living in the locality, no improvement could be brought about in the situation. In a different vein the BSF engaging in cross-border smuggling itself is a security threat to the country, which neither the BSF, nor the government could ignore any further.

Despite global reportage of more than 300 similar cases by the AHRC and MASUM over the past seven years, the government has neither shown interest nor proven its capacity to deal with an escalated human and security catastrophe, most of which is the making of the BSF.

I therefore urge you to take the following actions in the case:

1. That the police immediately investigate the allegations in the complaint filed by Ms Selima Gazi before the Superintendent of Police, North 24 Parganas against the BSF;
2. A separate inquiry is ordered into as to the conduct of the BSF stationed along the Indi-Bangladesh border, particularly of those stationed in North 24 Parganas district;
3. An independent investigation conducted in Swarup Nagar police registered a case, numbered 216 of 2011;
4. An inquiry ordered into the alleged knifing by the BSF of the victim as a form of punishment and the statements of the witnesses recorded by a judicial magistrate and the witness provided protection from any form of threat from the BSF;
5. The government of India, Ministry of External Affairs take adequate efforts to seek and find the whereabouts of the victim Gazi and the boy Laltu who was injured in the firing;
6. That the government take all possible steps to bring Gazi back to India;
7. That the government take all measures possible to ensure that conditions that promote cross-border smuggling along the Indo-Bangladesh border is addressed through a consultative process involving the local residents.

Yours sincerely,

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PLEASE SEND YOUR LETTERS TO:

1. Ms. Mamata Banerjee
Chief Minister
Government of West Bengal
Writers' Buildings, Kolkata - 700 001
West Bengal
INDIA
Fax: +91 33 2214 5480 / 2214 1341
Email: cm_wb@nic.in

2. Mr. Samar Ghosh, IAS
Chief Secretary
Government of West Bengal
Writers' Buildings, Kolkata - 700001
West Bengal
INDIA
Fax: +91 33 2214 4328
Email: chiefsec@wb.gov.in

3. Mr. G. D. Gautama, IAS
Additional Chief Secretary (Home)
Government of West Bengal
Writers' Buildings, Kolkata - 700001
West Bengal
INDIA
Fax: +91 33 22143001
Email: sechome@wb.gov.in

4. Mr. Naparajit Mukherjee, IPS
Director General & Inspector General of Police
Government of West Bengal
Writers Buildings, Kolkata-1
West Bengal
INDIA
Fax: +91 33 2214 4498 / 2214 5486
Email: dgp_westbengal@gmail.com

5. Mr P. Chidambaram
Home Minister
Government of India
Ministry of Home Affairs
North Block, New Delhi 110003
INDIA
Fax: + 91 11 23093750 / 23092763
Email: hm@nic.in

6. Director General BSF
Block 10, CGO Complex
Lodhi Road, New Delhi -03
INDIA
Fax: +91 11 24360016
E-mail: probsf@yahoo.com, bsfhq@bsf.nic.in, bsf_hq@hub.nic.in, bsf_hq@bsf.delhi.nic.in


Thank you.

Urgent Appeals Programme
Asian Human Rights Commission (ua@ahrc.asia)
 
A Forum with a large number of smuggler sympathisers. :lol:

For your correction... it is about the human right violation and barbaric activity by the BSF... which even targeted Indians even after taking bribe from them and the victim has to come to Bangladesh illegally for treatment ... what a shame for the Bhartis... N all these smuggling has been carried out by giving bribe to the BSF.

In this instance, the BSF was in fact assisting the cross-border smuggling gang of which the victim was part of, to illegally traffic cattle from India to Bangladesh, allegedly after accepting bribes. However in a dispute between the smugglers and the BSF, and the BSF fired shots injuring a boy. Later the BSF knifed the victim and left him for dead. Villagers however helped the victim to illegally cross over to Bangladesh and seek treatment.
 
......Villagers however helped the victim to illegally cross over to Bangladesh and seek treatment. The present whereabouts of the victim is however not known[/B]."

This is when I stopped reading..
 
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has once again received information from MASUM, a human rights organisation working in West Bengal, concerning the brutality practiced by the Border Security Force (BSF) against civilians living along the Indo-Bangladesh border.


This Organization is run by a Commie called Kirity Roy.

According to the information received, on April 7, 2010, at 9.45 a.m, policemen of the Anti Terrorist Cell of Kolkata in plainclothes arrested Mr. Kirity Roy at his residence at Seyrampore, Hooghly, under sections 120B (“punishment of criminal conspiracy”), 170 (“personating a public servant”) and 229 (“personation of a juror or assessor”) of the Indian Penal Code.


Those charges were initiated following a People’s Tribunal on Torture that was conducted by MASUM under the National Project on Preventing Torture in India on June 9 and 10, 2008 in Kolkata

Acts of judicial harassment against Mr. Kirity Roy - IND 007 / 0608 / OBS 097.3 - FIDH - Worldwide Human Rights Movement

Kirity Roy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

BSF is the Villian.

Look at their Website.

May 2011

:lol:

Stupid Bangladeshis Busted Again! :rofl:
 
This Organization is run by a Commie called Kirity Roy.



Acts of judicial harassment against Mr. Kirity Roy - IND 007 / 0608 / OBS 097.3 - FIDH - Worldwide Human Rights Movement

Kirity Roy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

BSF is the Villian.

Look at their Website.

May 2011

:lol:

Stupid Bangladeshis Busted Again! :rofl:

no need to shed crocodile tears ... we all know about the human right violation of Indian police and bsf and army... Truth even recently been exposed how Indian police use torture to accuse innocent muslims as terrorist...


Anyway This is for your so called arrest of Kritty Roy... n the real picture behind it... n For your info it is not about Kritty Roy but about the incident... n we have shown time after time about the terrorism activity and brutality of BSF...

Kirity Roy's Arrest

Kirity Roy's Arrest By Tusha Mittal

By Tusha Mittal

19 April, 2010
Tehelka

A marriage hall in Kolkata is packed with 1200 of India’s poorest citizens. They have trekked here from all over West Bengal, from remote forests and dingy alleyways, from Howrah, East Midnapore, South 24 Parganas. They have come because there is a story to tell, a brutal story that may otherwise never be told. Finally, there are people willing to hear. These people may never bring justice; may never be able to punish the guilty. Yet, they bring something as potent: the first face of a compassionate democracy.

Now, two years after this public hearing, the man who united 1,200 victims of State atrocities has been arrested, charged with running a “parallel court”. It was a day after the Dantewada massacre led to national outrage — down with the Naxals who don’t believe in the Indian Constitution. Yet, in a quiet corner in West Bengal, a man silently working to strengthen it was led into a police lock up. For decades, civil rights activist Kirity Roy, 57, has trudged the interiors and borders of West Bengal, fact-finding and documenting extra-judicial killings, custodial death, rape, mysterious disappearances, and police torture. 118 cases in 2006, 469 in 2007, 210 the next year. Roy was elected a board member of Amnesty International India in 2003. Last year, more than 300 NGOs elected him as their representative at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. On the morning of April 7, a contingent of 25 policemen arrested this man from his home in Sreerampore, Hooghly.

His crime — holding a public hearing; holding the State accountable; attempting to hold the Constitution to its best face. In the FIR against Roy by the Anti-terrorist cell of Kolkata Police, the above amounts to: criminal conspiracy, impersonating a public servant, impersonation of a jury.

But these ludicrous charges are not the only reason Kirity Roy’s story is significant. His arrest is indicative of a deeper malaise — the attempt to crush democratic dissent, the blindness with which the government brands its most ardent supporters as its adversaries, the movement toward a police State.


Rewind to June 2008. Bustling people’s tribunals were held in nine states across India. It was part of a National Project on Preventing Torture in India, (NPPTI), funded by the European Union. In Kolkata, 82 men and women told their stories, openly, bravely. There was the family of Santosh Mondal, 35, pushed to death by the BSF in East Midnapore as he tried to flee. They chased him for being a smuggler. He dived into a lake. The family says the BSF went after him in a speedboat; the propeller blades killed him. There was Radha Rani Ari — gangraped by CPM goons in Nandigram village in 2007. She wants justice, but no police station will register her complaint.

.......

---------- Post added at 03:11 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:09 AM ----------

......Villagers however helped the victim to illegally cross over to Bangladesh and seek treatment. The present whereabouts of the victim is however not known[/B]."

This is when I stopped reading..


Truth always hurts...

It is also revealed that during the incident the BSF officers knifed Gazi in his lower abdomen and left him for dead at the spot. A person from the locality, named Mr Mostafa Baidya, son of Mojam Baidya residing in the same village as that of the victim saw the victim and took him to the nearest safe place, which is a village in Bangladesh territory. Then some persons in the village admitted him in a nursing home in Jashore, Bangladesh. Baidya subsequently informed the incident to the victim's wife Ms Selima Gazi. One Mr Khalek Sardar, son of Mr Ebtullya Sardar who also came to know about the incident informed Selima of what had happened.
 
no need to shed crocodile tears ... we all know about the human right violation of Indian police and bsf and army... Truth even recently been exposed how Indian police use torture to accuse innocent muslims as terrorist...


Anyway This is for your so called arrest of Kritty Roy... n the real picture behind it... n For your info it is not about Kritty Roy but about the incident... n we have shown time after time about the terrorism activity and brutality of BSF...

Kirity Roy's Arrest

Kirity Roy's Arrest By Tusha Mittal

By Tusha Mittal

19 April, 2010
Tehelka

A marriage hall in Kolkata is packed with 1200 of India’s poorest citizens. They have trekked here from all over West Bengal, from remote forests and dingy alleyways, from Howrah, East Midnapore, South 24 Parganas. They have come because there is a story to tell, a brutal story that may otherwise never be told. Finally, there are people willing to hear. These people may never bring justice; may never be able to punish the guilty. Yet, they bring something as potent: the first face of a compassionate democracy.

Now, two years after this public hearing, the man who united 1,200 victims of State atrocities has been arrested, charged with running a “parallel court”. It was a day after the Dantewada massacre led to national outrage — down with the Naxals who don’t believe in the Indian Constitution. Yet, in a quiet corner in West Bengal, a man silently working to strengthen it was led into a police lock up. For decades, civil rights activist Kirity Roy, 57, has trudged the interiors and borders of West Bengal, fact-finding and documenting extra-judicial killings, custodial death, rape, mysterious disappearances, and police torture. 118 cases in 2006, 469 in 2007, 210 the next year. Roy was elected a board member of Amnesty International India in 2003. Last year, more than 300 NGOs elected him as their representative at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. On the morning of April 7, a contingent of 25 policemen arrested this man from his home in Sreerampore, Hooghly.

His crime — holding a public hearing; holding the State accountable; attempting to hold the Constitution to its best face. In the FIR against Roy by the Anti-terrorist cell of Kolkata Police, the above amounts to: criminal conspiracy, impersonating a public servant, impersonation of a jury.

But these ludicrous charges are not the only reason Kirity Roy’s story is significant. His arrest is indicative of a deeper malaise — the attempt to crush democratic dissent, the blindness with which the government brands its most ardent supporters as its adversaries, the movement toward a police State.


Rewind to June 2008. Bustling people’s tribunals were held in nine states across India. It was part of a National Project on Preventing Torture in India, (NPPTI), funded by the European Union. In Kolkata, 82 men and women told their stories, openly, bravely. There was the family of Santosh Mondal, 35, pushed to death by the BSF in East Midnapore as he tried to flee. They chased him for being a smuggler. He dived into a lake. The family says the BSF went after him in a speedboat; the propeller blades killed him. There was Radha Rani Ari — gangraped by CPM goons in Nandigram village in 2007. She wants justice, but no police station will register her complaint.

.......

---------- Post added at 03:11 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:09 AM ----------



Truth always hurts...

This is called Abuse by Security Forces.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/bangla...ault-man-after-sexually-harassing-sister.html

It is the Work of BSF to stop Illegal Migrants coming to India from Bangladesh who come for a Better Life.

While BGB sexually abuses Bangladeshi Woman. :rofl:
 
This is called Abuse by Security Forces.

http://www.defence.pk/forums/bangla...ault-man-after-sexually-harassing-sister.html

It is the Work of BSF to stop Illegal Migrants coming to India from Bangladesh who come for a Better Life.

While BGB sexually abuses Bangladeshi Woman. :rofl:

This what bhartis can do when they are busted and real face has been exposed... Before posting a link.. you should have gone through the other posts which was already posted... N Bangladesh army is not like the bharti army which rape and abuse girls...

Human Rights Group Asks for Probe Into 1991 Mass Rape of Kashmiri Women by Indian Soldiers - International Business Times


you bhartis should be ashamed of even showing your face where army conduct such horrible human right violation...

n Bangladeshis cross India for better life???? But this article is telling the opposite where Indian man took the victim to Bangladesh for treatment who was injured by BSF itself... N your country is a poverty stricken country... where poverty and unemployment rate is higher then Bangladesh. Pity on you.
 
This will keep happening until and unless Bangladesh makes his Armed Force of the most deadly ones with latest and huge number of equipment and finally giving them orders to strike back and strike back really very hard
 
why not Bangladesh govt take any action?

The victim is an Indian who was injured by knife by BSF even after giving them bribe... n another indian hindu man brought him to Bangladesh illegally for treatment...

That man is part of the indian gang member who smuggle cow to bangladesh from india giving bribe to BSF.
 
This will keep happening until and unless Bangladesh makes his Armed Force of the most deadly ones with latest and huge number of equipment and finally giving them orders to strike back and strike back really very hard

Strike back at Indian paramilitary force for hurting an INDIAN smuggler?? :lol:
 
For your correction... it is about the human right violation and barbaric activity by the BSF... which even targeted Indians even after taking bribe from them and the victim has to come to Bangladesh illegally for treatment ... what a shame for the Bhartis... N all these smuggling has been carried out by giving bribe to the BSF.

And this was told by a smuggler whose whereabouts now is unknown. :lol: This is more thrilling than dark knight!
 
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