Torture upon Minors and Women of Religious Minority

   We have conducted fact finding in the bordering village of Char Parashpur, Jalangi Police Station; District: - Murshidabad, West Bengal where on 8.8.2009 about 20/25 villagers including women and minor girls were forcibly detained at BSF Observatory Point (O.P.) no. 2 under Farajipara BSF BOP Camp, Police Station-Jalangi by the perpetrator BSF personnel. The victim-villagers were allegedly beaten severely and number of victim women and two minor school going girls were sexually assaulted and molested during the incident. Some of the victims were admitted in hospital for couple of days. The victim-villagers lodged complaint at local Jalangi Police Station and also before higher administration of the district but there was no respite till date. Our attached fact finding report gives details of the situation.

 We found that BSF had established a reign of terror in the locality in the name of protecting the border. The villagers had to abide by atrocious dictums of BSF and slightest violation thereof led to brutal physical assault and harassment.

 The right to life and the right to livelihood of the villagers as guaranteed under Art.21 of the Constitution have been grossly violated due to the atrocities and torturous activities carried out by BSF in the name of safeguarding the border and there are widespread criminal activities in the porous Indo-Bangladesh border  with the blessing of a section of BSF.