Rights group demands probe into death of villagers near Bangladesh border

Kolkata | Saturday | 7th July, 2018

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“The villagers told me that the bodies were lying in the field,” Ms.

Mondal said. But villagers told me that my husband and Paritosh Mondal were shot and killed,” Ms.

Mondal, who is yet to locate the bodies, told The Hindu over the phone. Ms.

Mondal has lodged a complaint with the police, while Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), a local partner of the international NGO Human Rights Watch, filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Thursday. more-inThree days after her husband, Sukumar Mondal, and a relative were allegedly shot dead BSF personnel in Harudanga village near the Bangladesh border in Murshidabad district, Suchitra Mondal is yet to trace their bodies. Later, Ms.

Mondal received a call from residents of Harudanga, a 40 minute walk from Lakkhinarayanpur, informing her that the BSF had fired on the Mondals, both landless agricultural labourers..