A young Bangladeshi farmer, who was tortured by the Indian Boarder Security Force on Saturday in Singanagar-Moksedpur border area in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital early Sunday, the police said.
The victim, Shahjahan Ali, 22, was a resident of Singnagar Hatatpara village in the upazila, the police said.
With the latest killing, 40 Bangladeshi civilians have been slain by the Indian BSF in Chapainawabganj border since January 9, 2010.
The Border Guard Bangladesh sources said that Shahjahan was critically injured in the torture by the BSF on Saturday morning on Moksedpur frontier.
The BGB 39 Battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Abu Bakar Abu, told New Age on Sunday that Ali was dragged to the Shovapur camp of BSF in Maldah in India on Saturday morning where he was brutally tortured.
He said that after torturing Shahjahan for about two hours, the BSF troops left him at Singanagar-Moksedpur frontier in an unconscious state.
Shahjahan was taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Saturday and where he succumbed to his injuries at around 1:00am, said Shibganj police officer-in-charge Anwar Hossain.
The BGB official said that they had sent a letter of protest to the BSF and held a flag meeting on Sunday in this connection.
On January 7, the BSF shot dead Felani Khatun after she got entangled in barbed-wire fence in Phulbari border of Kurigram.
The Indian border guards on January 8 shot dead two Bangladeshi cattle traders, Sirajul Islam and Jahed Uddin, residents of Bhugolbari in Chapainawabganj, in the Khanpur frontier area in Rajshahi, sources in the BGB said.
According to human rights organisation Odhikar, the BSF kills one Bangladeshi every four days.
The rights watchdog also said that 74 Bangladeshis were killed, 72 injured and 43 were abducted in 2010.
