Completion of 44 years of imprisonment and chief executioner Shahjahan Bhuiyan is in danger of being released from jail. He is disappointed. He held a press conference on this. There he said, ‘Why is life so complicated outside the prison? If I had known that life would be so difficult, I would have stayed in prison.

He said these things in a press conference on Monday (April 1).

Jallad Shahjahan said, “After coming out from 44 years of imprisonment, it seems that I was better in prison after being subjected to various frauds. My niece Nazrul killed my money saying she would buy me an autorickshaw when I got out of jail. After that, I found a tea shop with great difficulty. The boy who used to spend time with me in the shop, after staying with me for 4 months stole 30,000 taka and mobile phone from the shop.

He said, “I got married on December 21 of last year and got married there too.” My wife Akhter Fatema ran away after 53 days with a stamp of 10 lakh taka which I had written on the stamp of 5 lakh taka. Ran away and filed a dowry case in my name. I went to file a case at the police station, but they turned me away saying that the case cannot be filed in the name of the wife. Later, with the help of a lawyer, I filed a case in the name of 6 people including wife, mother-in-law in the court on Sunday.

Shahjahan said, ‘Food, clothing, shelter, education and medical care are essential for human survival – I am not getting any of these. I have appeared before you to assert my fundamental rights. I have no parents, no brothers and sisters to take responsibility.

Shahjahan Bhuiyan said, ‘I have no capacity to work, no income, no money provider, no place to live. After completing 44 years of imprisonment, I do not understand people outside now. Wherever I go, I fall into the clutches of fraud.

He said, ‘I am now living in both crises. This is my unstable financial situation, on the other hand a woman has run away with my last savings and is harassing me with dowry cases. However, when taking 10 lakhs from me, it was written on the stamp, all the proofs of which are in my hands.

He also said, ‘After being released from jail, I was given five lakh rupees from the Prime Minister’s Relief and Welfare Fund. And while I was in prison, I received a total of 18 lakhs as aid including money received as blessings from various well-wishers. With that money, I got married and now I am completely independent. I don’t know how to live now, how to live my life, where to live. Now life is going on without eating or starving.

He said, “Now I eat rice after two or three days. If someone gives me food, I eat, if not, I don’t eat. I have no place to stay. So I am having a hard time on the sidewalk, in the garage or if someone gives me temporary shelter from there. I went to my upazila chairman, MP but no one gave me a handful of rice, did not give me work, did not help me. If I continue like this, I will have no choice but to commit suicide.’