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Rekha Panja filed complaints at Baranagar PS many times, all were ignored. On 4 March<br />

2007, Madan Mohan Panja also attempted to file a complaint at Baranagar PS, but the POs<br />

refused to give him the General Diary Entry Number.<br />

Mr. Panja sent a copy of the complaint to SP, Barasat, North 24 Parganas. Mr. Panja currently<br />

is on leave because he has lost sight in his right eye.<br />

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

Murshidabad/June-08/06/2007/Sl.No.-62<br />

Victim(s) : Asha Begum<br />

Perpetrator(s) : 1) BSF personnel; 2) unnamed<br />

OC, Raninagar PS,3) Dr. S.B. Kanjilal,<br />

Baharampur District Hospital<br />

Location : Kaharpara I & II BSF Out Posts, Point<br />

Kargil; Raninagar PS, Murshidabad District<br />

Date of incident : 07/06/2007 and subsequently<br />

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

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Case Detail:<br />

Victim Asha Beguma is a child from Bangladesh. A sex worker named Champa @ Bristi (who<br />

was well known to the BSF officers, having visited India several times before with no passport)<br />

offered Asha Beguma a suitable job in India. Asha Beguma agreed.<br />

On 7 June 2007 at around 7.00pm, Asha Begum was among 6 persons crossing the border<br />

into India. Asha Begum and Champa were caught and brought to a temporary BSF shelter.<br />

A BSF constable dragged Asha Beguma outside in front of other BSF personnel and raped her.<br />

An officer of the BSF intelligence wing (DIB) arrived, directed that Asha Beguma receive a<br />

medical check-up, and lodged a complaint with the Raninagar PS. Asha Beguma was taken to<br />

a primary health centre and then to the station.<br />

With the help of local police, BSF personnel managed to suppress the rape charge. Further,<br />

acting on a complaint by the BSF, the Raninagar PS filed a charge (Case No. 109, dated<br />

08.06.07) against Asha Beguma and Champa u/s 14(A)(B) of the Foreigners Act.<br />

Under the order of SDPO (Domkal), Asha Beguma was sent to the Beharampur District<br />

Hospital under police custody, where Dr. S.B. Kanjilal recorded that Asha was not raped.<br />

On 9 June 2007, Asha Beguma and Champa were sent to the court of ACJM (Lalbagh), from<br />

which they were remanded to judicial custody.<br />

Prison official Singh has stated that Asha Beguma told him that she was raped by BSF personnel,<br />

but that the medical examination disproved this allegation.<br />

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

2007

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