Cases
Of Gross Violation Of Human Rights In Barak Valley Of Assam
By Wali Laskar
02 November, 2007
Countercurrents.org
The Assam Police and CRPF personnel
have been violating human rights systematically in Barak Valley killing
serially innocent persons, denying justice, framing fake charges, arresting
and detaining people in trumped-up cases, and raiding, harassing, abusing
and humiliating in false charges.
There are four such cases of gross violation of human rights perpetrated
recently in the valley:
1. On 19 April, 2007 one Pia Das alias Pria Das, aged 25, wife of Shnakr
Das under Silchar Police Station in Cachar, died abnormally in Silchar
Medical College Hospital, Silchar when she was admitted there in a very
critical condition. According Kiran Sharma, and Rahul Das, the mother
and minor son of the victim, Pia was badly beaten by Shnakar Das, her
husband. They allege, he used to torture, abuse and beat her always
during her conjugal life for dowry. That day he hit her on the head
with a stool to which she succumbed. Afterwards Kiran Sharma went to
Gunghoor Outpost to lodge FIR but Sub Inspector N R Das, in-charge of
the Outpost denied to register the case and bullied and her demanded
her five thousand rupees as the price of registering the FIR. She lodged
complaint to the Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police. But
till the date no action has been taken regarding the investigation of
her case and delinquent police officials.
2. One Hashmat Ali, aged
about 40, of village Burunga, Bihara under Katigorah Police Station
in Cachar was gunned down by a police team led by S I Sewa Singh, in-charge
of Bihara Outpost in the intervening night between 30 April and 1 May
of 2007 at his house. There was a quarrel between his father Imam Uddin
and Uncle Kamal Uddin over the right to use of the ghat of their ancestral
pond. In the morning of 30 April Kamal Uddin filed a complaint against
Imam Uddin and his son Hashmat Ali, the victim alleging threat to his
person and property from the accused. It should be noted that such cases
come under section 107 of Criminal Procedure Code which are filed with
executive magistrates. In the night at about 11pm Sewa Singh arrived
at the house of Kamal Uddin with a police team. They attacked the house
of Hashmat Ali at about 12 O' clock when inmates were sleeping. Police
broke down the doors, entered the house and started breaking and destroying
household things. Being terrified by this sudden heavy attack Hashmat
jumped through a window and ran towards paddy field. Police opened fire
and shot him dead. The district administration and police are trying
to explain the case away terming it as an accidental death in stark
contradiction with the facts known to all.
3. The police posted at Kailain
Patrol Post under the Katigorah Police station in cachar killed one
Motahir Ali Tapadar, aged 38, son of late Akaddas Ali Tapadar of village
Bhatgram, Kalain under the same police station on 21 September, 2007.
The victim was in their custody at the time of his death. He was arrested
by the police on 20 September in connection with a complaint against
him. This complaint was resulted from a quarrel of his family with a
nieghbouring family over the toys of the kids of the two families. In
the evening of the day of arrest Olimun Nesa visited the said PP with
some respectable person from their village to see her husband. They
saw that S I Narain Tamuli and other police personnel were beating,
abusing and humiliating her husband. When she tried to dissuade the
men in uniform they beat and kicked her too. In the morning next day,
that is 21 Septebmer, Narain Tamuli brought Motahir out of PP house
to take him to the court. Olimun Nesa came and beseeched Tamuli to release
her husband. Tamuli demanded her ten thousand rupees and he threatened
her that otherwise he would kill Motahir. In fact he again started to
beat and kick him in full public view. When the condition of Motahir
deteriorated beyond limits Narain took him to the Kalain Primary Health
Centre. Here also he tortured, beaten and kicked Motahir. At about 1.30
Motahir breathed his last. After the death local people gathered in
front of Kalain PP and shouted slogans demanding arrest of Narain Tamuli.
Police started administering lathi-blows on the member of crowd at which
people started to throw stones. Police opened fire and shot 80 rounds
wounding a boy of 17 namely Saidur Rahman of Dhumkar who was wtching
the incident from roof top of a nearby house. Being terrified people
got dispersed. But then the police themselves set fire on the PP house
Gaon Panchayat Office building and burnt them down. As per their plan
police lodged an FIR charging falsely one Faruk Ahmed and other unidentified
five hundred people under many non-bailable sections of the IPC including
309.In connection with this fake case police arrested Faruk Ahemd, Imamul
Hoque, Ibajul Hoque and seriously wounded Saidur Rahman.
4. It was reported in the news papers on 23 October, 2007 that on 22
October at about 10am five Central Reserve Police Force personnel belonging
to Gharmura Camp of E-147 Company shot dead one Jamir Uddin Laskar of
about 35 years of village Boinchera (also known as Bhaichera) under
the Katlichera Police Station in the district of Hailakandi in Barak
Valley of Assam. Members of the Barak Human Rights Protection Committee
talked with family members, relatives and nieghbours of the deceased,
local journalists, CRPF personnel of the said camp and police personnel
of Katlichera Police Station. According to the sources, other than the
two mentioned last, the victim Jamir Uddin Laskar was a poor daily wage
labourer. He is an innocent peace loving and law abiding citizen. There
were no complaints whatsoever against him in police records. His nieghbour
Moijun Nesa states that in the morning of the day of incident the victim
was collecting grass to graze his cattle from a paddy field adjacent
to her house. At about 10am she saw five CRPF men accompanied by one
Rezwan Uddin, who is known to be a CRPF informer, going towards the
paddy field where the deceased was working. She smelt something wrong
and informed Sajna Begum and Anwara Begum, sister and wife of the victim
respectively. When three of them went to the place of occurrence they
saw Rezwan Uddin identifying the victim was asking the men in uniform
to shot by pointing his fingers towards Jamir Uddin who was dumbfounded
at the sight. At that moment Sajna and Anwara started to cry and beseech
the men with arms to spare the life of Jamir Uddin at which they were
beaten, kicked, abused and humiliated. As per the accounts of the eye-witnesses
named above, at the instance of Rezwan Uddin a bullet was shot targeting
Jamir Uddin which was missed, the second shot also missed but the third
bullet hit on the back of the target, who had already started to run
away, and piercing his chest exited. The critically injured victim was
sent to the Silchar Medical College Hospital, Silchar where he was declared
dead at 6.30pm that day.
These horrendous incidents
robbed the citizens of the valley of all senses of security. It seems,
we are living at the mercy of those whose duty it is to protect us.
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