Staff Reporter :
Daud Merchant, alias Abdur Rauf, an alleged associate of Dubai-based underworld Indian mafia don Daud Ibrahim, has been released from Central Jail at Keraniganj in Dhaka.
Senior Jail Super Jahangir Kabir confirmed
the matter to The New Nation on Monday, “Daud Merchant was released around 4.30pm on Sunday and he walked out of the jail alone as no one came to receive him.”
Daud was relieved of a case filed under Section-54 by Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on November 3. At that time, the jail authorities said that they need the court’s paper of another case before releasing him.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, however, did not clarify whether Daud was handed over to India. “His [Daud Merchant] prison term for illegal trespass into Bangladesh ended some time ago. And so, he has been released,” the Minister said.
Replying to a query, he said: “If he [Daud] wants to stay in this country, he will have to obtain visa. If not, he will have to leave Bangladesh. The decision will be taken by Indian High Commission……We don’t think there is any need of pushing him back.”
Official sources said maximum detention under Section-54 of the Penal Code is one month but Merchant was kept behind bars for much longer without explanation.
Daud Merchant, a convicted killer of music baron Gulshan Kumar, who was shot dead on August 12, 1997 in Mumbai. Later, he received 10 years’ jail sentence for killing Gulshan Kumar who owned T-series, a noted music company of India.
He, however, fled to Bangladesh and was arrested along with one of his associates in Brahmanbaria district on May 27, 2009. A case was filed against him for making forged Bangladeshi passport and trespassing into the country. He was then kept at the Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur.
After remaining in jail for five years, he got released on bail on November 19, 2014, and was released from Kashimpur Jail in the evening of December 1 of the same year.
He was, however, arrested again on the following day under Section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for suspicious movement. Daud was then produced before a Dhaka court, which placed him on a three-day remand.
Since then he had been at the Dhaka Central Jail.
Meanwhile, the media of both countries reported that steps to extradite a few Indian nationals, like Merchant, were initiated after the extradition of ULFA leader Anup Chetia from Bangladesh and Narayanganj seven-murder prime suspect Nur Hossain from India.
Dhaka had started the process to extradite Merchant after a meeting between the home secretaries in November last year, media reports suggest.
It said Delhi requested Dhaka for the extradition of three members of armed group Asif Reza Commando Force- Moulana Mansur Ali Habibullah, Mufti Obaidullah alias Abu Zafar, Moulana Emdadullah and top Kolkata criminals Zahid Sheikh and Arif Hussain.
In reply, Dhaka wanted extradition of top criminal Subrata Bain, prime suspect in Gazipur MP Ahsanullah Master’s murder ‘Dipu’, Islami Chhatra Shibir Chittagong chapter leader Sajjad Hossain and extremist leader Mukta Hossain, among others.
Daud Merchant, alias Abdur Rauf, an alleged associate of Dubai-based underworld Indian mafia don Daud Ibrahim, has been released from Central Jail at Keraniganj in Dhaka.
Senior Jail Super Jahangir Kabir confirmed
the matter to The New Nation on Monday, “Daud Merchant was released around 4.30pm on Sunday and he walked out of the jail alone as no one came to receive him.”
Daud was relieved of a case filed under Section-54 by Dhaka’s Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on November 3. At that time, the jail authorities said that they need the court’s paper of another case before releasing him.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, however, did not clarify whether Daud was handed over to India. “His [Daud Merchant] prison term for illegal trespass into Bangladesh ended some time ago. And so, he has been released,” the Minister said.
Replying to a query, he said: “If he [Daud] wants to stay in this country, he will have to obtain visa. If not, he will have to leave Bangladesh. The decision will be taken by Indian High Commission……We don’t think there is any need of pushing him back.”
Official sources said maximum detention under Section-54 of the Penal Code is one month but Merchant was kept behind bars for much longer without explanation.
Daud Merchant, a convicted killer of music baron Gulshan Kumar, who was shot dead on August 12, 1997 in Mumbai. Later, he received 10 years’ jail sentence for killing Gulshan Kumar who owned T-series, a noted music company of India.
He, however, fled to Bangladesh and was arrested along with one of his associates in Brahmanbaria district on May 27, 2009. A case was filed against him for making forged Bangladeshi passport and trespassing into the country. He was then kept at the Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur.
After remaining in jail for five years, he got released on bail on November 19, 2014, and was released from Kashimpur Jail in the evening of December 1 of the same year.
He was, however, arrested again on the following day under Section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for suspicious movement. Daud was then produced before a Dhaka court, which placed him on a three-day remand.
Since then he had been at the Dhaka Central Jail.
Meanwhile, the media of both countries reported that steps to extradite a few Indian nationals, like Merchant, were initiated after the extradition of ULFA leader Anup Chetia from Bangladesh and Narayanganj seven-murder prime suspect Nur Hossain from India.
Dhaka had started the process to extradite Merchant after a meeting between the home secretaries in November last year, media reports suggest.
It said Delhi requested Dhaka for the extradition of three members of armed group Asif Reza Commando Force- Moulana Mansur Ali Habibullah, Mufti Obaidullah alias Abu Zafar, Moulana Emdadullah and top Kolkata criminals Zahid Sheikh and Arif Hussain.
In reply, Dhaka wanted extradition of top criminal Subrata Bain, prime suspect in Gazipur MP Ahsanullah Master’s murder ‘Dipu’, Islami Chhatra Shibir Chittagong chapter leader Sajjad Hossain and extremist leader Mukta Hossain, among others.
