"Since the state has declared him a foreigner, they should hand over his body to Bangladesh. The family says Dulal Chandra Paul was declared a foreigner in 2017 in an ex-parte judgment despite being mentally unstable. The state government has sent several delegations to his village for past four days to convince the family members and the villagers to accept the body. He has been declared a foreigner by the tribunal so it is beyond the scope of the administration to even discuss on their demand. What has angered his family and villagers the most is the fact that the prison department officials came with a document to hand over the body which allegedly mentioned him as a 'declared foreigner', according to NDTV.

Source: bd News24 October 17, 2019 06:56 UTC