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B’desh sends back jailed 5-yr-old child, grandparents to India
Five-year-old Indian boy Ariful Sheikh, who along with his grandparents spent a year in a Bangladeshi jail after being sentenced to two months in prison for trespassing, was on Sunday sent back home through the land border.
“The five-year old child and his grandparents went back to India” through western Chuadanga frontiers, Deputy Commissioner or Admin
istrative Chief of western Kushtia district, Banamali Bhoumik, told PTI on phone.
He said the district administration arranged a special car for 48-year old Hachimuddin Sheikh, his wife Mafroza Khatun (40) and their grandchild Ariful to take them to neighbouring Chuadanga, amid an opposition enforced nationwide daylong shutdown.
They crossed the Darshana border with the help of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and their Indian counterparts Border Security Force (BSF).
Jailer of Kushtia district prison, Nurul Islam, told PTI that the child was staying with his grandparents as a “released prisoner” for the past nine months on expiry of their two-month jail term on trespassing charges.
“The woman (grandmother) became restless in recent months and threatened to commit suicide as the procedural complications took a long time for their return home” in West Bengal after exchange of letters between the Foreign Ministries and border guards of the two countries, Islam said.
Hachimuddin Sheikh, his wife and their grandchild were arrested in April 2011. They were sentenced by a judicial magistrate court in Kushthia to two months in prison and ordered to be repatriated to India but had been languishing in jail even after their prison term was over.
Five-year-old Indian boy Ariful Sheikh, who along with his grandparents spent a year in a Bangladeshi jail after being sentenced to two months in prison for trespassing, was on Sunday sent back home through the land border.
“The five-year old child and his grandparents went back to India” through western Chuadanga frontiers, Deputy Commissioner or Admin
istrative Chief of western Kushtia district, Banamali Bhoumik, told PTI on phone.
He said the district administration arranged a special car for 48-year old Hachimuddin Sheikh, his wife Mafroza Khatun (40) and their grandchild Ariful to take them to neighbouring Chuadanga, amid an opposition enforced nationwide daylong shutdown.
They crossed the Darshana border with the help of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and their Indian counterparts Border Security Force (BSF).
Jailer of Kushtia district prison, Nurul Islam, told PTI that the child was staying with his grandparents as a “released prisoner” for the past nine months on expiry of their two-month jail term on trespassing charges.
“The woman (grandmother) became restless in recent months and threatened to commit suicide as the procedural complications took a long time for their return home” in West Bengal after exchange of letters between the Foreign Ministries and border guards of the two countries, Islam said.
Hachimuddin Sheikh, his wife and their grandchild were arrested in April 2011. They were sentenced by a judicial magistrate court in Kushthia to two months in prison and ordered to be repatriated to India but had been languishing in jail even after their prison term was over.
