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Indian boy,
grandparents freed from Bangladesh jail
Sunday April 29, 2012 06:39:09 PM,
IANS
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Dhaka/New Delhi: In
a gesture of goodwill, the Bangladesh authorities Sunday released
a five-year-old Indian boy, Ariful Sheikh, who spent nearly a year
in a Bangladesh jail along with his grandparents after they
crossed the border to meet their ailing relatives.
The boy was reunited with his parents after the Border Guard
Bangladesh handed him along with his grandparents to the BSF at
the Gede checkpost on the Indo-Bangladesh border in the early
hours of Sunday.
Later, they were handed by the BSF to Murshidabad police for
formalities.
Ariful, his grandfather Hachimuddin Sheikh (48) and grandmother
Mafroza Khatun (about 40) who hail from West Bengal's Murshidabad
district, crossed the border to Bangladesh in April last year to
see their ailing relatives. Little did they know at that time they
will spend over a year in jail.
They were sentenced by a judicial magistrate court in Kushthia to
two months in prison and ordered to be repatriated to India, but
were languishing in jail even after their prison term was over.
Ariful looked overjoyed after his release. "I was in jail all this
while... in Bangladesh. I had three friends in the jail and they
used to give us eggs, fried potato, rice and roti," Ariful told
NDTV. Parents, too, were ecstatic. "I am very happy and I thank
everyone for their help and support," said his mother Kajol Rekha
Bibi.
In New Delhi, a human rights body lauded the release of the boy
and his grandparents.
"We are very happy for the family," said Maja Daruwala, Director
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative.
Daruwala, however, stressed that this was not the end and drew
attention to the plight of many more families in jail on both
sides of the border that need immediate and efficient consular
services.
"The ministries and governments on both sides must immediately
come to an understanding and put in place suitable procedures that
make sure that this kind of neglect and delay never takes place in
the future," said Daruwala.
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