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Shufol Singho, a farmer, was allegedly tortured by BSF members near the Porsha border in Naogaon district

Shufol Singho (52) claimed that on May 18, 2012, the members of Border Security Force (BSF) India took him away and tortured him. Shufol Singho is the son of late Shommopod Kormokar and late Surang of Duarpal village under Porsha upazila of Naogaon district. On May 18, 2012 at around 7 am he went to cut crops in his own field in Katlamari Chor near the 232/5 S pillar of the Bangladesh-India border. There, at around 11 am, the BSF members on duty at the Dalla border of Horipur thana of Maldah district asked him for some water while standing at the no man’s land. He alleged that when he went to the no man’s land with water, the BSF caught and tortured him.

fact-finding-Border-Shufol Singho-Naogaon-2012 (full text in English, PDF)

fact-finding-Border-Shufol Singho-Naogaon-2012 (full text in Bangla, PDF)

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