A Bangladeshi woman’s body was recovered from a train station in India and handed over to her family via the immigration police in Bangladesh yesterday.
Aslam Khan, officer-in-charge of immigration at Benapole checkpost, said Indian Petrapol immigration police handed the body of Nargis, 32, over to Bangladesh immigration police around 9am, who later handed the body over to her family.
The victim’s family alleged that she was abducted, raped and killed. However, police said they had yet to find any definitive proof as to how she died.
Nargis, a mother of one, was from the Sonadanga area in Khulna. Her mother Manimala and aunt Rahela Begum said she used to run her household by working as a domestic help.
According to Manimala, Nargis took her mother, who is blind, and her daughter Kakoli to India on March 9 for her mother’s treatment. They went to Kolkata through the Benapole checkpost, and from there they took a New Delhi-bound train.
In the train, Nargis had asked a few young men to let her know when they arrived in Delhi. Around 3:30am, those men told them they had reached the station in Delhi, and the trio got off the train.
“Soon after we got off, those men abducted my daughter. I am blind, I could not see what was happening. All I could hear was my daughter’s screams. The train left after a while. I kept crying and asking for help.
“We spent a few days waiting for my daughter to come back to the station, which we later learnt was in Kanpur. When she did not return, I took my granddaughter and came back to Bangladesh on March 16 – illegally because Nargis had all our passports,” Manimala said.
On March 19, Sonadanga police contacted the family and informed her that Indian police had found Nargis’s body in a train station.
The body arrived near Benapole border on Sunday morning, from where the family was informed to collect the body.