Influential people ostracize 55 Christian families of Tala Upazila of Satkhira district
(The Daily Prothom Alo, 08th April 07)
From Our Correspondent
SATKHIRA, April 8: 55 Christian families of Tala upazila of Satkhira district were ostracized. A case was lodged when a Christian couple was repressed few days back. Later police arrested the accused. To this the influential people of the area ostracized them. Nobody of the local bazaar is selling anything to the people of Christian community and even nobody is giving them any work. The Christian couple is now fleeing away for the continuous threat to withdraw the case.
Laxmi Sarkar, wife of Bistu Sarkar of village Laxmanpur told that an influential named Sheikh Haidar Ali of village Noapara told her to meet him centering her family feud. Laxmi Sarkar along with her husband was going to Sheikh Haidar’s house by van on March 21 last. On the way Sheikh Haidar Ali stopped the van and took them to task. He also beat up Laxmi Sarkar and her husband when they protested it.
Laxmi Sarkar and her husband went to local Jatpur police camp for a justice to the incident. Both of them at the advice of camp in charge Anisur Rahman took primary aid from Upazila Health Complex. Bistu Sarkar lodged a case with Tala police station on that very night accusing Sheikh Haidar Ali. Later police arrested Haidar Ali on March 22.
Laxmi Sarkar told that about 40-50 men led by chairman of Tetulia Union Parishad Mokbul Hossain, Haidar Ali’s cousin Sheikh Moshiur Rahman, Tarapad Sarkar and kanai Das came to her house on March 22 night. They forcibly took the signatures of Laxmi Sarkar and her husband on two white papers saying that they would settle the matter. The next day Moshiur Rahman took them to Tala police station by a microbus. Both Laxmi Sarkar and her husband were forced beforehand to say before the OC of Tala police station Abdur Razzak that the matter was solved. Being forced Laxmi Sarkar and her husband admitted that. Later the subject of the settlement of the matter was put down on the papers on which signatures of Laxmi Sarkar and her husband were taken were submitted before the court and then the court granted the bail of Sheikh Haidar Ali on March 25.
Some Christian inhabitants of Laxman village told that after Sheikh Haidar Ali was freed on bail, the people of Christian Palli (village) were ostracized. Lutfar Mallik, Atiar Sardar, Abdus Sattar and Delwar Hossain supported Haidar Ali for this work.
Through :
Rabindra Ghosh
President, HRCBM-Dhaka.