BSF tortures Bangladeshi to death

India’s border guard, Border Security Force (BSF) has tortured a Bangladeshi citizen to death at Doodhli, a bordering area in the neighbouring country, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has said.

The victim has been identified as Jagdish Goswami, 42, son of Bishnupada Goswami of Satkhira Sadar Upazila.

India’s Doodhli is situated across the Kushkhali border in the Sadar Upazila.

Kushkhali border outpost’s Nayek Subedar Wahiduzzaman said the incident occurred on Saturday morning.

The BSF personnel from Doodhli camp had detained Jagdish for illegally trying to cross over to India and then subjected him to inhuman torture, Wahiduzzaman said.

“The BSF later dumped him in a critical condition near the border post number 9. Local residents informed the BGB after seeing a person lying there in an unconscious state,” he said.

After BGB personnel rushed him to Satkhira Sadar Hospital, duty doctors there declared him dead.

Victim’s sister Lilly Chakraborty said her brother was suffering from a chronic neurological problem and stomach pain. He had decided to cross over to India illegally on Saturday to avail better medical facilities there after treatments in Bangladesh failed to cure him.

Satkhira BGB 38 battalion Operations Officer Major Ahsan also confirmed the incident.

9 persons detained at border

The BGB has handed over nine persons, both males and females, to police after detaining them from Satkhira’s Debhata Upazila’s Kulia border on Saturday for illegally crossing over to Bangladesh from India.

All the detainees are Bangladeshi nationals.

They have been handed over to Debhata Police Station in the afternoon.

A case under Passport Act was registered against them.