03-West Bengal Report.pdf - People's watch
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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.