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<strong>West</strong> <strong>Bengal</strong><br />

FF Code : W.B./Mon (Gopen Chandra Sharma)/<br />

Murshidabad/ Feb-28/02/2007/<br />

Sl. No.-36<br />

Victim(s) : Dhananjay Mondal<br />

Perpetrator(s) : Unnamed officers, BSF Out Post No. 1,<br />

Khoyertola Border Out Post Camp<br />

Location : Padma Riverside, near the<br />

Indo-Bangladeshi border<br />

Date of incident : 29/01/2007<br />

Case Details:<br />

196<br />

Victim Dhananjay Mondal, age 40, belongs to a poor, marginalised fishing community. He<br />

resides with his wife and three sons at Kajipara Guripara village, Jalangi District.<br />

On 29 January 2007 at 8.00am, while Dhananjay Mondal was fishing at the Padma Riverside<br />

with five companions, two BSF officers asked them to show their identity cards (the identity card<br />

is a standard requirement for the fishermen of that area, who are allowed to fish in the Padma<br />

River along the Indo-Bangladeshi border). When Dhananjay Mondal produced his card, the<br />

officers snatched it and tore it to pieces. Then they threatened to murder him, abusing and<br />

intimidating him for no reason in front of many witnesses.<br />

Dhananjay Mondal returned to his village and told everything to Dharmadas Mondal, Chief of the<br />

Guripur Village Panchayat. Dharmadas Mondal advised him to lodge a complaint at the Jalangi<br />

PS. Dhananjay Mondal did so.<br />

Dhananjay Mondal also lodged complaints with the BDO (Jalangi) and the Secretary of the<br />

Fishing Committee.<br />

No action has been taken.<br />

Annual <strong>Report</strong> on Torture<br />

2007<br />

Dhananjay Mondal cannot go fishing without his identity card, and his family has suffered.

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