HC orders removing handcuff, fetters from hospitalised Santals

The High Court on Monday ordered the government to remove handcuff and fetters from three Santal men of Gaibandha, who were arrested in a case filed for attacking police with arrows during a clash on November 6, and undergoing treatment at different hospitals.

The bench of Justice Obaidul Hassan and Justice Krishna Debnath also ordered the Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner, deputy inspector general of Rangpur range and Rangpur superintendent of police to submit compliance report to the court on November 16.

Santal men Charan Soren, Bimal Kisku are being treated at Rangpur Medical College Hospital and and Dijen Tudu is admitted to National Institute of Orthopedics in Dhaka with their hands cuffed and tied with rope.  

They were arrested on November 7 after Gobindaganj police filed the case against 34 named and 300 unnamed people for allegedly attacking the law enforcers.

Supreme Court lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua filed the petition following a newspaper report.

The clash on November 6 ensued at Shahebganj cane farm of Rangpur Sugar Mills at Gobindaganj of Gaibandha over harvesting sugarcane. The clash left two Santals dead and 25 people, including nine cops, injured.

During the Pakistan regime in 1952, the government had acquired 1,840 acres of land at Shahebganj to set up a sugarcane farm.

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