Brutal Gang Rape and Murder of minority Hindu family members traumatized the local Hindus of Bagherhat, Bangladesh 

An Investigative report from HRCBM

I along with Advocate Jagadish Chandra Sarkar, Prof. Ashoke Taru Saha of HRCBM, Dhaka and also two others from Hindu community visited the place of occurrence on 14^th March, 2003 at Komarpur, Thakurbari, Bagerhat where Tapan Bhattacharjee was brutally killed and three women were gang-raped by terrorists on 9^th March,2003 on the basis of horrific news published in different dailies in Bangladesh. We also got three more incident of repressions on Hindus ,one is in Sultanpur village another is in Fatepur village and another is in Bishnupur village within Bagerhat district after reaching at Bagerhat “Ramkrishna Mission” which was not published in the dailies.

Picture: Victim of brutality Mrs. Shewli Bhattacherjee (20) who is admitted to Khulna Medical Hospital signing sworn affidavits and other paper works allowing HRCBM to take drastic legal action against the miscreants.   Prof. Taru of HRCBM is seen in photograph taking statements of the victims while victim's mother sitting on the side.

Picture: While Prof Taru of HRCBM gives assurance to the family of pursuing the legal action, other advocates of HRCBM is listening to the statements of victims.

We started for Bagerhat from Dhaka by bus on 13^th of March,2003 at about 9 p.m. and reached at Bagerhat in the next morning on 14^th March,2003 and met with the “Maharaj” of Ramkrishna Mission at Bagerhat who apprised us the overall situation of Bagerhat and before proceeding towards Komarpur,Thakurbari we talked with the Supdt.of Police, and Deputy Commissioner Bagerhat to know the situation. We went to Md.Ishaque Dudu @ (Dhuku) Officer-in-Charge of Bagerhat Sadar police station and recorded his statements. We requested the O.C. Bagerhat to co-operate us helping mete out justice to the victims. We also requested him to supply us copies of complaint filed by the victims and he gave us two copies of F.I.R.(First information report) filed by one Prof.Sarbajit Chakravorty of Sultanpur village who was attacked by some unknown terrorists and another from Md.Badsha Meah, S.I. of police, Bagerhat Sadar P.S. on behalf of  Deb Das Samaddar of  Fatepur village whose dwelling house was burnt by some terrorists... more.....