Super Jyoti
Chakma released on bail
The Khagrachari district
magistrate granted him bail after he was produced before the court.
After the release, Super Jyoti
Chakma told the Human Rights Monitoring Cell of the UPDF that he was
blindfolded and tortured by a Captain at the Lakshmichari Army Zone headquarter
and that he was feeling strong pain in the legs.
“An army commander, who might be
of the rank of a captain, quizzed and beat me up, but I don’t know his name as
he had taken his name badge off his uniform before he came to me.” he said, adding
he was at first picked up by members of the army security intelligence from
Lakshmichari bazzar at about 4:45 p.m.
He said the commander asked him
why he had come home, whether he contacted local UPDF leader Ratan Basu Marma
and what the UPDF is fighting for. “The commander told me that they had to keep
watch on educated young boys like me and that we are on their target list” said
Super Jyoti Chakma.
He said the captain also
threatened to kill him, but he felt a bit lucky as the most dreaded commander
Hafizur was down with fever at the time. “Otherwise, I would have been dead
meat” he said and added that the army hit him in the legs.
At the end of the interrogation
the captain asked him if he had anything to say. “I said you (the army) should
have diverted all your means and energy towards crushing the Islamist militants
instead of running after UPDF and torturing innocent people like me; the JMB is
blowing up courts and threatening to destroy the state and yet you are doing
nothing” recalled Super Jyoti.
The army handed him over to the
Lakshmichari police at around
He was shifted to Khagrachari
today early in the morning and was produced before the magistrate’s court at