Bangladeshi teenage girl Afroja Khatun, who returned home from Indian jail on Saturday, was enrolled in Class VI at Shaheed Colonel Emdad Haque Public School at Rajshahi sector of Border Guard Bangladesh on Sunday. On the occasion, the Boarder Guard Bangladesh Rajshahi sector held a meeting at the auditorium of Shaheed Colonel Emdad Haque Public School in the city at noon.
Rajshahi divisional commissioner Helal Uddin, sector commander of BGB Rajshahi Mizanur Rahman, ACD executive director Salima Sarwar addressed the programme among others.
From now, she will stay at the shelter home of non-government organisation Association for Community Development in Rajshahi and the NGO has already taken initiatives to take care of her accommodation, food, treatment and clothing.
The BGB also handed over a Trust Bank check worth TK 1.5 lakh Rupi delivered by the Human Rights Commission of West Bengal.
Meanwhile, civil society men and left leaning
politicians stated that the Indian’s Border Security Force handed over Bangladeshi teenage girl,
Afroja Khatun, to hush up the criticism of Feleni verdict.
They said that BSF decided to hand over Afroja Khatun, who was trafficked into India five years ago along with her mother and brother, while the role of BSF is being criticised across the world.
Abul Kalam Azad, president of the Communist Party Bangladesh Rajshahi city unit, said, ‘It is clear to me that BSF pushed back Afroza Khatun so that people forget the mockery of BSF especial court for the trial Felani murder.’
Ganasanghati Andolan Rajshahi coordinator Murad Morshed said that this kind token of kindness dose not prove that BSF or India has empathy to Bangladeshis.
He said the government should formulate strong foreign policy to handle India.
Otherwise `Felanis’ will die and BSF will give some token gifts to hush up issue.
A Border Security Force delegation of India escorted Afroja Khatun back to the country on Saturday.
The Indian delegation, led by Banshi Dhar Sharma, special director general of the BSF, handed
Afroja over to her family, in the presence of Border Guard Bangladesh’s chief Major General Aziz Ahmed and other officials at the BGB’s Peelkhana headquarters.
BGB officials said Afroja was trafficked to India along with her mother and brother in 2009, after being lured by the traffickers with better job in the next door country.
But, they were arrested at Balurghat of West Bengal in India as they were returning home after failing to find job in Delhi.
Her mother was jailed for two years for infiltration. Afroja was with her mother in Indian jail
while her brother was sent to a safe-home, called ‘Shuvayon’, considering his age.
The mother died on October 13, 2009 in a hospital in India.
After being informed, BGB men had taken an initiative to return Afroja and her brother to Bangladesh authority.
Earlier, India returned her brother to Bangladesh on August 24, 2011.
-With New Age input
