BSF releases Bangladeshi farmer after torture

Indian Border Security Force released a Bangladeshi farmer on Thursday evening after torturing him severely at Munshipur border point of Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga.
According to sources in 35 Rifle Battalion of BDR, Safiqul Islam, 32, son of Yakub Ali of the upazila, was picked up by a BSF team around 12:30pm on Thursday.
Safiqul was working at his paddy field near the main pillar no 92. The BSF men took Safiqul into Indian territory and tortured him mercilessly, sources said.
Soon after the incident, BDR sent a letter to BSF protesting the incident.
BSF set Safiqul free near the border around 6:30pm. He is now undergoing treatment at Damurhuda upazila health complex.
Major Humayun Kabir, deputy commander of the rifle battalion, told the newsmen that BSF has agreed to sit with BDR regarding the incident.
Earlier on March 2, BSF abducted another farmer Fazlul Haq from the same area and later released him after torture.
Fazlul, 22, of Charulia village of the upazila, died at a hospital in Dhaka on March 12.