05-West Bengal.pdf - People's watch

FF Code : W.B. /MON (Tanushree Chakraborty)/
District-Kolkata/Aug-16/08/2008/Sl. NO-130
Victim(s) : 1) Sabina Khatun 2) Sajida Bibi
Perpetrator(s) : 1) Sunanda Bose 2) Police 3) BSF Officials
4) Special Branch Police 5) Officers of Customs
6) Officers of Immigration 7) BSF Commandant 8) OIC
Location : All Bengal Women’s Union, Kolkata
Date of incident : 23/07/2008, 10/08/2008
Case Details:
Victim Sajida Bibi, aged 45 is a widow, residing in Basanti colony, falling under the jurisdiction of
Ultadanga Police Station. The victim was implicated under Foreigners’ Act in Park Street Police Station.
Sajida was living with her daughters Sabina Khatun and Nasiba Bibi in the above mentioned address for
decades. Sabina was looked after and sheltered by an organization named ‘All Bengal Women’s
Union. Sajida was communicated by the organization through another organization named ‘Society for
People’s Awareness’. Thus the victim was send a communication stating to bring clothes for her
daughter Sabina, for she was going to be deported to Bangladesh of late. On 10 th August 2008 when
Sajida went to visit her daughter as usual she was not present in the home, and the authorities refused
to give any explanation. Sabina was pushed back to Bangladesh on 23 rd July 2008. Sajida and her
second daughter Nasiba were forcibly confined in a room. The same day they were arrested by the
police of Park Street Police Station neither issuing any memo of arrest nor showing any reason. It was
revealed that the following organizations were involved in the deportation of the victim: All Bengal Women’s
Union, Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), BSF at Haridaspur Border, Kolkata Police (Special Branch), Customs
Department, Immigration Department, Assistant Commandant and the representatives of BNWLA from
Bangladesh.
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Annual Report on Torture
2007