Pune: Waiting for an emergency travel document from Bangladesh has forced Mohammed (31) and his wife, Majida (28), to spend their days at the Faratkhana police station in the city for more than one and a half months now.
Bangladesh’s pair has served their two-year term of office in Jerawada prison because it was illegal in the city and was released in June.
The police said the Mohammed deportation order was ready, but the certificate of emergency travel was not issued by the Deputy High Commission of Bangladesh in Mumbai.
“We have three children – daughters of Khadija (12) and son of Riyaz (10) and Bisti (8),” Majida told Toi, showing their photos.
“Police ‘Bhaiya’ helped me make calls to my children, who lived with my husband’s mother in the village of Diria near Khulna City in Bangladesh.
I want to meet my children.
They don’t have money and no one takes care of them, regardless of from their old grandmother, “he said.
Mohammed said, “My wife and I never went to school and we could not read or write.
I used to drive a ‘tum-tum’ threwheeler to get a livelihood in Bangladesh.
We are happy with our lives there.
In January 2019, I Find a man, who identified himself as Azizul Shaikh, in the Diring.
He promised me a good job with a company in India.
We crossed the international border one night and reached Kolkata.
We took the train to Pune from Kolkata in February 2019.
“He said, “In Pune, a local agent whose name I did not know, took me to a building in the Red Light Budhwar Peth district and told me that my wife, would get a job.
I then realized that they had sold my wife to a brothel.
I am Refuse and not allow my wife to work in a brothel.
Agent and the other then told the police about our stay in the city of Pune , “Senior Inspector of Rajendra Landge from Police Farakshana said,” The couple from Bangladesh was in a strict and could not leave the police station.
“Until now, police officers were keeping a partner by arranging tea, breakfast, snacks, lunch, and free dinner .
For Eid al-Fitr, the police bought Mohammed and Majida new clothes and ordered Biryani for them.
Staff at the police station also shared their lunch box with them.
The couple slept on the bench or floor of the police station and used small room facilities there.