Indian rights bodies call for booking BSF men for killing Alamgir

Dhaka, April 26: Two Indian human rights organisations have lodged complaint with the National Human Rights Commission of India, demanding that the criminal offence perpetrated by the BSF soldiers, who killed Alamgir Sheikh, should be booked.

Alamgir, son of Beraj Sheikh, an agriculture worker of village Char Basgara of Raninagar of Murshidabad, was allegedly killed by the BSF men on April 11 in between the BSF outpost no 5 and 6 under Harudanga BSF company headquarters near Kuthibari BSF mini camp in Raninagar of the Murshidabad district of West Bengal.

Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha of West Bengal and Programme against Custodial Torture and Impunity of India sent a letter to the chairman of the National Human Rights Commission of India on April 22.

The organisations also demanded that the whole matter must be enquired into by a neutral investigating agency and respective authorities must be directed to immediate steps in order to bring back the body of the victim from Bangladesh and hand over to his family members.

The victim's family must be provided with adequate compensation, they said in the letter.

Source: New Age

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