The highest authorities of the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) have rejected acquittal of a BSF constable of Felani murder charges and ordered a fresh trial.
The development follows a weeklong outcry by the people and the media at home and abroad expressing their disapproval to the verdict that cleared the lone accused BSF man of the charges.
A special court in the Indian state of West Bengal last week acquitted the BSF constable of murdering Felani Khatun on the border in January 2011.
The court said Amiya Ghosh was not guilty of shooting the Bangladeshi girl when she crossed the barbed-wire fence into Bangladesh from India.
On returning from Delhi and on her way home, Felani, 15, was crossing the border illegally and was shot as her clothes got stuck in the barbed-wire fence on January 7, 2011.
The photo of her body hanging at the top of the fence triggered a huge outcry around the globe.
However, this was the first time a BSF jawan had been put on trial for such a killing.
A five-man BSF General Security Forces court headed by its Assam-Meghalaya frontier DIG (Communication) SP Trivedi conducted the hearings at Sonari BSF camp near Cooch Behar from August 13.
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