Edited By: Pritha Mallick
Last Updated: January 19, 2023, 22:46 IST
The Nepal authorities has initiated official efforts to deliver again its citizen Jannat Khatun, who’s lodged in the transit camp of Silchar Central Jail in Assam.
The Nepal Consulate in Kolkata on Tuesday despatched a letter to the Superintendent of Central Jail Silchar, asking Khatoon, a resident of Laxmimore in Salahi District of Nepal, to be launched and hand over the aged girl to her son Firoz Lahiri.
The letter addressed to the Superintendent of Central Jail Silchar, Jagadish Deka, states that Khatoon has already accomplished her sentence time period and is receiving therapy at a hospital.
“Nepal consulate in Kolkata is effectively conscious that one Nepali nationwide named Jannat Khatun is stored in the jail cum detention centre Silchar Assam, who has already accomplished her sentence time period and is now sick and hospitalized for additional therapy. Her member of the family is shipped and arrived at your workplace to meet and obtain her,” it learn.
In her early fifties, Khatun was arrested in 2018 for illegally entering India. She was sent to Silchar Central Jail on November 28 and spent two years in prison and another two years languishing in the detention centre.
Assam’s Citizens’ Rights Preservation Committee (CRPC) State General Secretary Bidhayak Das Purkayastha said Khatun is mentally disabled and likely a victim of human trafficking racket.
“Jannat Khatun is mentally disturbed and is a resident of Nepal along the Indo-Bengal border. She possibly is a victim of human trafficking racket and landed in India along the Indo-Bangladesh border of Kathigora of South Assam. The BSF believed her to be from Bangladesh and handed her over to the police,” he stated
The police framed a case in opposition to her, and she or he served her jail time period for two years which ended in 2020, he stated. “Unfortunately, the poor girl has been languishing in Silchar detention camp for no motive or fault,” he said.
“I had written to Nepal Consulate in West Bengal apprising them about Jannat Khatoon and they have responded likewise with an official letter,” Purkasthya added.
Khatun’s son-in-law stated the household was unaware of her whereabouts and had been looking out for her for 4 years since she misplaced her approach into Bangladesh and believed that she might have died.
“She had no thought the place she was. We searched for her all over the place in Nepal and virtually believed she was lifeless. We got here to find out about her when an Assam police constable made a video name and made her communicate to us,” he said.
He further explained that they now don’t have money to return home due to their poor financial condition. “We are poor and had managed money to come to India. Now we don’t have enough money to return. The official process is also taking time. We want the process to end quickly so that we can return with her at the earliest,” he added.
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