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Bangladesh Awami League Hindu person Ramesh Chandra Sen (Photo credit: Bangladesh Parliament)
A seasoned Bangladesh politician, Bangladesh Awami League elder person Ramesh Chandra Sen died connected Saturday portion successful custody astatine Dinajpur District Jail.Sen, 83, reportedly became unwell wrong the jailhouse aboriginal Saturday greeting and was taken to Dinajpur Medical College Hospital, wherever helium was pronounced dormant astatine astir 9:29 americium section time, according to situation officials.
Jail Superintendent Farhad Sarkar said the assemblage would beryllium handed implicit to his household erstwhile each ineligible procedures person been completed, arsenic reported by ANI.His death, lone days earlier the country’s wide predetermination scheduled for February 12, has heightened concerns implicit the attraction of incarcerated governmental leaders and renewed allegations of custodial negligence. Organising Secretary of Bangladesh Awami League Central Committee Shafiul Alam Chowdhury Nadel, alleging negligence and calling retired Yunus said connected X, "Ramesh Chandra Sen from a teacher to a person and a nationalist representative.
A five-time MP and erstwhile minister—this elderly, sick antheral was arrested and led distant with his hands tied. He has present passed distant successful Dinajpur jailhouse owed to a deficiency of aesculapian treatment. Yunis, you indispensable reply for this."President of Bangladesh Students' League Saddam Hussein besides claimed aesculapian neglect saying, "Eighteen months ago, this wide respected, aged person was attacked, humiliated by BNP-Jamaat mob and taken into constabulary custody, without immoderate circumstantial charges.
One mendacious and fabricated lawsuit aft different was imposed connected him to warrant his continued detention. Despite his deteriorating health, helium was deliberately denied bail, denied minimum aesculapian treatment, and denied basal quality rights.
" "At 86 years of age, Sri Ramesh Chandra Sen was kept down bars for 1 and a fractional years without proceedings and without due aesculapian care. This happened nether the illegal, murderous-fascist Yunus regime, which chose cruelty implicit humanity and repression implicit the regularisation of law," helium added.Further mentioning different Awami League politicians successful custody helium added, "According to Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), astatine slightest 107 prisoners died successful custody successful 2025 alone—the bulk of them leaders and activists of the Awami League. In astir each case, the authorities casually cited causes specified arsenic “heart attack” oregon “sudden illness.” Despite wide ineligible provisions, not a azygous custodial decease has been decently investigated by this amerciable government.
"The seasoned Hindu person had been successful custody since August 16, 2024, aft being arrested by constabulary successful Thakurgaon. "Bangladesh Police person arrested a Hindu person of Awami League and enactment him connected a farcical trial. Ramesh Chandra Sen, an octogenarian, was arrested from his location successful Thakurgaon who was having his dinner. Surprisingly, helium hails from Mirza Fakhrul's constituency," the Bangladesh Awami League had said, conscionable days aft his apprehension astir 2 years ago.A tribunal subsequently ordered his transportation to Thakurgaon District Jail and aboriginal to Dinajpur. There, helium was facing 3 cases, including a execution complaint linked to the governmental turmoil that followed a wide uprising against the authorities of erstwhile Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.Born connected April 30, 1940, successful Ruhia Union nether Thakurgaon Sadar Upazila, Sen was elected aggregate times from the Thakurgaon-1 constituency to the Jatiya Sangsad.
A presidium subordinate of the Awami League, helium secured his astir caller parliamentary triumph successful the 2024 wide election, earlier the enactment was aboriginal barred from governmental enactment by the existent interim administration.Meanwhile, the interim government, headed by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and tasked with overseeing the electoral process for February 12 elections, has faced disapproval astatine location and overseas implicit its quality rights record. Opposition figures contend that deaths of salient detainees, peculiarly erstwhile Awami League leaders, constituent to systemic failings and rise concerns astir the adequacy of aesculapian attraction successful custody.His decease comes astatine a politically delicate infinitesimal successful Bangladesh, with the Awami League excluded from the forthcoming polls and rival parties competing for advantage.
