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Civil rights leader Kirity Roy has strongly objected to the manner in which the Border Security Force (BSF) , the police and the judiciary in West Bengal have treated a 35 years old Bangladeshi woman victim of human trafficking, who was subjected to sexual exploitation for 15 long years, has been declared guilty of violating the Foreigners Act, violating all human rights norms.
Roy, who is Secretary, Banglar Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), and National Convenor, Programme Against Custodial Torture & Impunity (PACTI), Hooghly, West Bengal, said the woman, now aged 35, is not the only such victim at the hands of state machinery. In a letter to the chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), he said, between January and June 2021, where trafficked 106 Bangladeshi women Bangladeshi and 30 children who were charged with criminal offences by the BSF/police.