Students protest against rape, murder of Bangladeshi in India

The Students Against Discrimination on Saturday staged a demonstration on the Dhaka University campus in the capital demanding justice over Friday’s rape and murder of a 28-year-old Bangladeshi woman in India’s Bengaluru.

Addressing a rally at the base of the Anti-Terrorism Raju Memorial Sculpture, the protesters urged the interim government to take steps to ensure justice for the family of the victim, Najma.

Najma, a domestic worker by profession, went missing on Thursday and found dead near Kalkere Lake in Ramamurthy on Friday. Indian police’s primary investigation found that she was murdered after rape, reports several Indian media on Saturday.

The protesters on the DU campus alleged that the ousted Awami League government sold the independence of Bangladesh to India.

‘India tried to portray Bangladesh’s July uprising as a terrorist activity. They have cultivated hate against the people of Bangladesh in India. The murder is a result of that hostility,’ the platform’s member secretary Arif Sohel said.

Al Islam, a former coordinator of the platform, said, ‘We want to tell the interim government that if you fail to take action regarding Najma’s murder, the people will not accept you.’

Moderated by the platform office secretary Jahid Ahsan, the rally was addressed, among others, by Tariqul Islam and Nirob Hasan Sujon.

The Indian Express, referring to sources in the police, reported that preliminary investigations based on her husband’s statement revealed that Najma now did not possess a valid passport or any legal documentation to reside in India.

The report said that Najma’s husband Suman was a garbage segregator for the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike and that the woman had a valid Bangladeshi passport six years ago and used to live in India with her three children.

New Age