Following the treaty between India and Bangladesh on exchange of enclaves,a police station in India for the first time Saturday registered a complaint between two residents of a Bangladeshi enclave in India albeit after a delay of three days. Sources said a 26-year-old resident of Poarurkuthi village in a Bangladeshi enclave was assaulted by five men from an Indian village Thursday. However,when the woman and an eyewitness went to the Dinhata Police Station the next day to lodge a complaint,the police refused to consider the matter,saying the victim belongs to a foreign land. The same day in the evening,the alleged assaulters of the woman reportedly attacked the eyewitness,Tapra Burman,at his home and threatened him. Burman,65,was admitted in a local nursing home with head injuries and fractures. Every villager of the enclaves knows these five criminals. They crossed the Bangladeshi border recently and arranged for Indian voter identity cards. Earlier they used to cultivate ganja in this village since it is an enclave and there is no police movement. However,the villagers resisted them. Since then,they have started taking revenge on them, said Diptiman Sengupta,secretary of Indo-Bangladesh Enclaves Coordination Committee. He said it was time to properly implement the treaty,under which Bangladeshi enclaves in India are to be treated as part of India and Indian enclaves on the other side as part of Bangladesh.
