Bangladeshi woman killed in India
She had gone to India for treatment, but came back dead yesterday, around a month after being killed by criminals in Faizabad of Uttar Pradesh state.
Family members of Nargis Begum received the body at Benapole check post at 11:30am.
Nargis, 32, of Sonadanga in Khulna along with her visually impaired mother Anowara Begum and six-year-old daughter Kakoli had gone to India on March 7 for treatment of herself and her mother.
“We left for treatment there, but my daughter returned home dead. Put the criminals on trial,” wailed Anowara.
On March 9, the three started off for New Delhi from Kolkata by a train. When they reached a station around 3:30am the following day, some people approached them and said they were in New Delhi, Anowara told The Daily Star.
They alighted from the train hurriedly, leaving a bag in the coach. Nargis stepped back onto the train. As she got down with the bag, criminals waylaid her and took her away in an auto-rickshaw.
Kakoli witnessed the incident and told her grandmother about it. As they screamed for help, some people gathered there and took the two to the police.
Later they came to know that it was Badhan Railway Station in Faizabad.
Police with the help of locals on March 16 sent back Anowara and her grandchild to Benapole. But their passports were with Nargis.
Victim's aunt Rahela Begum said Khulna police informed them on March 20 that Nargis was killed. Her body was found beside a railway track near the railway station. Three passports were also recovered from the bag.
Uttar Pradesh police informed the Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi about the recovery of the body. The Bangladesh mission communicated this to the foreign ministry in Dhaka.
Contacted by the foreign ministry, the home ministry asked Khulna police to take necessary action.
Sonadanga police then asked the victim's family to arrange money for bringing the body home. But the family could not arrange the money and the body was kept at the morgue of an Indian hospital, said Rahela.
Finally, it was brought home yesterday under government arrangement.
Aslam Hossain, officer-in-charge of Benapole Immigration Police Station, said they had no information if the Indian police filed any case in this connection.
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