His reaction came on Saturday, a day after a special court found the India's Border Security Force (BSF) trooper Amiya Ghosh, the prime accused in the Felani killing, not guilty of murder.
Meanwhile, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed has said that there should be an appeal against the BSF court verdict in the Felani case if Indian law permits.
Home Minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir said justice was not served. “The government will take further measures after knowing about the details.”
NHRC Chairman Mizanur Rahman (File Photo)
“This verdict is a cruel joke played out with the whole nation, our people, not just with Felanee’s departed soul or her family,” Mizanur Rahman told mediapersons during a program at the Liberation War Museum in Dhaka.
But he said that Bangladesh did not have much of an option to take up the issue since the trial had taken place in India under Indian law.
But Rahman said Bangladesh’s foreign ministry can convey to their Indian counterparts that the cause of justice has been less than well served and that people in Bangladesh were upset about it.
Felani was shot dead by BSF personnel and her body left to hang from the barbed wire fencing for five hours at Choudhuryhat on 7 Jan , 2011 .
The incident outraged many in India and Bangladesh.
BSF started the trial under its General Forces Court after huge pressure from Indian human rights groups and Bangladesh government.
West Bengal rights body MASUM chief Kirity Roy described the trial as a ‘sham’ and has called upon the Indian government for a review of the BSF court verdict that lets off the accused trooper Amiya Ghosh in view of ‘insufficient evidence’.
