All formalities have been completed through the Bangladesh High Commissioner in India to bring back Bangladeshi citizen, Badal Farazi, 28, currently, in Tihar jail, Delhi, said home minister, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal while talking to the media on Monday.
Under the transfer of sentenced person agreement between India and Bangladesh, Badal Farazi will be brought back, kept in jail here and dealt with as per the existing laws of Bangladesh, said the minister.
Hailing from Mongla port area, Badal Farazi, went to India on Jul 13, 2008, via the Benapole border with a valid passport and visa and, soon after entering Haridaspur, arrested by the Indian border force, BSF over a murder on the Indian side.
Badal, whose academic life ended after class eight, did not have enough English or Hindi to make the BSF understand that he was the wrong person.
Indian police had been searching for a person called Badal Singh over the killing of a senior citizen at the Amar Colony in Delhi on May 6, 2008.
In 2015, Badal was handed life sentence by a Delhi court. The hapless man, with the help from the Bangladesh High Commission, challenged the verdict at the Supreme Court, which dismissed the case.
Consequently, the trip to see the famous Tajmahal ended with Badal spending ten years in a foreign prison on a false charge. In Dec 2012, Bangladesh High Commission, elaborating the case of mistaken identity, gave a letter to the Indian foreign ministry, requesting the release of the young man.
The letter stated that Badal had entered India after the murder was committed.
Later, an Indian social worker, Rahul Kapoor began a crusade to have Badal released.
Rahul, a Phd student at Delhi University, met Badal when he went to Tihar jail to work for inmates’ rehabilitation.
However, there seems to be hope as all formalities have been completed by the Bangladesh High Commission in India to have Badal transferred to a jail in Bangladesh.