BNWLA pins hope on Indian apex court
Although a BSF trial court acquitted Constable Amiya Ghosh in the Felani killing case, Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association (BNWLA) yesterday hoped that the Indian Supreme Court would give a fair judgment over the incident.
Salma Ali, executive director of BNWLA, told journalists at its office in the capital that the Indian apex court on July 14 is expected to hear a writ petition filed by the rights organisation on behalf of Felani's father Nurul Islam in 2013, after the first
verdict of the BSF trial court.
“The Indian Supreme Court has many examples of delivering landmark judgement [in the past],” she said adding that a fair trial might turn the warm relations between the two countries warmer.
On January 7, 2011, Felani, 15, was shot dead while crossing into Bangladesh illegally as her clothes got stuck in the barbed-wire fence in Phulbari upazila of Kurigram.
Constable Amiya Ghosh of BSF was charged with culpable homicide for the killing. In 2013, the BSF trial court acquitted the constable, and a revision trial by the same court gave the same verdict on July 2 this year. After the first verdict, the BNWLA filed the petition seeking a fair trial and compensation for the victim's family.
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