Indian Border Security Force is yet to inform their Bangladeshi counterpart on the promised review of the Felani killing case, though five months have gone by since the “disappointing” verdict.
“We have not got any official information about it yet,” Border Guard Bangladesh Director General Aziz Ahmed said regarding the Felani case on Sunday.
“We will seek for its progress in the director general-level meeting between India and Bangladesh, which will be held in April,” he said in a press conference.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot 15 year old Felani dead at the Anantapur border, Kurigram while she was returning to Bangladesh on January 7, 2011.
Her bullet-ridden body was dangled miserably for nearly five hours, though she was reportedly alive for about four hours. She eventually bled to death.
Bangladesh, along with rest of the world, cried out in condemnation of the incident. Various groups have pulled up the BSF for their border atrocities.
On Sunday, even the BGB Director General Aziz Ahmed said the killing was “detestable. The killing was subjected to reactions not only in Bangladesh, but throughout the globe.”
On September last year, a BSF special court acquitted the killer trooper Amiya Ghosh for “inconclusive and insufficient” proof despite confessional statement.
Bangladesh criticised the verdict. Soon afterward, the Indian border force announced they will hold a revision trial because “competent authorities did not endorse the findings.”
Though five months have passed by since the assurance for justice, the word is yet bear fruit in practicality.