Bangladeshi criminals find safe havens in India
Friday, 31 October 2008
WE continue to see the saga of Bangladeshi criminals now residing in India, mostly in West Bengal state and in some other states bordering India. For a few years now it has been reported that many top criminals (godfathers) now reside in Kolkata where they have invested heavily in the fishing industry to real estate to film production! From India, they control their extortion business in Bangladesh, safe from intervention by the law. Their 'soldiers' in Bangladesh carry out crimes, from extortion to murder, the 'proceeds' from which then find their way across the border to these crime bosses.
The latest is that although the Indian police have arrested some top criminals those people have produced "genuine' and 'valid' documents to 'prove' they are Indians with different names. Now, some of them have taken the next step: they are using plastic surgery to forever change their faces! Now, if they return to Bangladesh with a valid Indian passport there is no way anyone can recognise them.
India continues to ignore Bangladesh's innumerable requests to send those criminals back to Bangladesh. Lately, however, there was another sinister twist to their repatriation as well as reported in at least one local daily. It seems that those crime bosses who are willing to work for the Indians as agent provocateurs-spies, saboteurs, whatever-those people have nothing to fear in India in terms of prosecution or jail terms let alone repatriation to Bangladesh. Only those who are of no use to the Indians will be repatriated. There is of course no proof of this but can it be discounted completely?
From June 12 to August 22, eleven suspected Indian criminals and rebels were handed over to the Indian authorities by Bangladesh.
On August 31, at the conclusion of the meeting between the Home Secretaries of Bangladesh and India, it was agreed by both parties to swiftly send back criminals residing in their countries to their country of origin. Let us hope India keeps its word.
Mominuddin Ahmed
Park Road, Bogra
The latest is that although the Indian police have arrested some top criminals those people have produced "genuine' and 'valid' documents to 'prove' they are Indians with different names. Now, some of them have taken the next step: they are using plastic surgery to forever change their faces! Now, if they return to Bangladesh with a valid Indian passport there is no way anyone can recognise them.
India continues to ignore Bangladesh's innumerable requests to send those criminals back to Bangladesh. Lately, however, there was another sinister twist to their repatriation as well as reported in at least one local daily. It seems that those crime bosses who are willing to work for the Indians as agent provocateurs-spies, saboteurs, whatever-those people have nothing to fear in India in terms of prosecution or jail terms let alone repatriation to Bangladesh. Only those who are of no use to the Indians will be repatriated. There is of course no proof of this but can it be discounted completely?
From June 12 to August 22, eleven suspected Indian criminals and rebels were handed over to the Indian authorities by Bangladesh.
On August 31, at the conclusion of the meeting between the Home Secretaries of Bangladesh and India, it was agreed by both parties to swiftly send back criminals residing in their countries to their country of origin. Let us hope India keeps its word.
Mominuddin Ahmed
Park Road, Bogra