Statesman News Service
MALDA, March 13:- Hundreds of Bangladeshi nationals are languishing in various jails in the state but they are not in a position to go back to their country despite release order issued by the court. After visiting Bongaon jail in North 24-Parganas yesterday, where 70 Bangladeshis including 20 women and six children are waiting for repatriation , the chief of Malda Ram Krishna Mission, Swami Divyananda said that the Bangladeshi people were languishing in different jails despite release order from the court three months agodue to dillydallying of the system. The Malda RKM chief Swami Divyananda said: “In Indian part the district intelligence branch officials and departmental officials of the Writers’ Building should be more active to sort out the lengthy repatriation process to give them relief drawing the attention of Bangladesh High Commission”. “I have planned to write a letter to the Governor Mr Gopal Krishna Gandhi about the matter requesting him to take up the matter so that hundreds of Bangladeshis can go back to their own homes”, said Swami Divyananda. There are 30 Bangladeshi children and their parents in Berhampore central jail in Murshidabad. Similar situation is in other jails like Suri, Bolpur in Birbhum, Krishnanagar in Nadia and other north Bengal district jails and even presidency jail. On 31 January 2008, Swami Divyananda wrote a letter to the national human rights commission about Bangladeshi children in correctional homes demanding formal education and proper care of them in jail.His letter said, “In West Bengal more than 100 Bangladeshi children of age group of 5 to 10 years are staying with their parents arrested as per Foreigners’ Act (amended in 2004) and they are subjected to an eight year sentence. The children would be unable to get proper care and formal education in jails during this period”. A copy of the letter was also sent to the chief justice, Calcutta High Court, the union minister of Law department and the chief justice of the Supreme Court. The Malda RKM is working in 40 correctional homes to uplift the lives of the jail inmates since last five years.Yesterday, the Malda RKM awarded a computer to Arun Debnath, an artist, outside the Alipur jail in Kolkata. Recently, he has been acquitted and released from the jail.
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