Detained by Assam Police, Missing for Months..

Sakina Begum, a 68-year-old woman from Assam, India, who had gone missing, is now being detained in Kashimpur Jail in Dhaka under The Control of Entry Act, 1952. She has been held for 53 days after allegedly being pushed into Bangladesh illegally from India.

Sakina Begum, a resident of Barkura village in Assam’s Nalbari district, was taken into custody by the Assam Police from her home in May. She subsequently went missing for a long period, with her family unable to contact her. In the first week of June, she had been found by a helpful stranger by the roadside in Dhaka’s Mirpur Bhashantek area, but had been unable to contact her family.