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Afghanistan/South Asia
7-day jail for Bangladeshi 'top terrors' in India
2005-05-15
A court of West Bengal on Friday ordered a 7-day imprisonment to nine Bangladeshi citizens, who were arrested on May 5 and identified as 'top terrors' in Bangladesh, for overstaying in India.
This is worse than a European court.
The North 24 Paraganas police produced the Bangladeshis to the sub divisional judicial magistrate court in Bangaon. The lawyers for the accused submitted a prayer that they were visiting India with valid travel documents and there were no criminal records against them. But the public prosecutor opposed the bail prayer. After the hearing, the court delivered the verdict.
"You're guilty! Die, die, DIE-E-E-E!! ... um, okay, seven days."
Police sources said the Bangladeshis during interrogations prayed for political asylum in India and said that they would be victims of 'crossfire' by the law enforcers if they sent back to Bangladesh.
The storied trip to the deserted industrial zone at 3 a.m., the shootout, the desperate attempt to escape, the 11 bullets to the back of the head...
The convicted further said that they were forced to leave the country for political reason, the sources added.
"What political reasons are those?"
"We like to kill people."
However, they did not approach this matter to the court.
"Ummm... Maybe you better not mention that part to hizzoner!"
As per police record the nine Bangladeshis are: Mohammad "Nimrod" Nimul Hassan, Biplob "Plob" Sahid, Musha "Fookie" Farooque, Mohammad "Maurice" Suman, Mohammad "Bippie" Bipul, Hamid "Ham" Mian, Abdullah "Abdullah" Abdul, Ebadul "Eeepers" Sheikh., and Kazi "the Nazi" Mohammad Rezawan Hoque.
Posted by:Steve White

#7  This is what thousands of saudi Wahabi missionaries and billions of aid dollars will do. They have remade subcontinental islam in their own image and changed the native culture.
Posted by: john   2005-05-15 21:32  

#6  On the other hand, lovely though B. is, what he knows about the three monotheistic religions (including his own) could be knitted into a small sock.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-05-15 21:25  

#5  True, Frank, but according to B., that's what the regular police are doing anyway.

Separately, B. is very concerned at the religious radicalization he saw when he was back home in Bangladesh last week -- when he was a child the girls ran in the streets just as freely as the boys, playing ball and riding bicycles just the same. Now he says the girls seem to be covered up everywhere, and that is new for Bangladesh, which was always very relaxed about its Islam. I trust his perspective on such things -- he is "godfather" to trailing daughter #2, having handled the German obstetrical establishment for me while Mr. Wife was rushing back from Poland.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-05-15 21:22  

#4  works until you'r ethe one they're beating on, asking about the cache of shutter guns..and where is your friend's hideout apartment
Posted by: Frank G   2005-05-15 18:35  

#3  We had a Bangladeshi friend over for dinner tonight (he left a little while ago), so I asked him about the Rapid Action Battallion and their habit of killing suspects during Crossfire. He explained that the justice system is almost completely non-working, with the courts (British system a legacy from Empire days) so backlogged that the judges will pretty much find guilty everyone who comes before them in an attempt to clear the dockets, even just a little.And the police are a wholly owned subsidiary of the whichever party is in power. So the RAB are actually a force for good, quickly taking out the grossly guilty with no regard to whoever is in power locally. Thus far, anyway.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-05-15 18:29  

#2  :) Brutal John.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-05-15 11:59  

#1  Indian West Bengal.. run by the Communist Party of India for decades.. its showpiece city of Calcutta demonstrating to the world the wonders of Marxist economic theory.
Posted by: john   2005-05-15 11:07  

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