Staff Reporter :
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Tuesday said India has not informed Bangladesh anything about the process of extradition of Nur Hossain, prime accused in the sensational Narayanganj seven-murder case.
“We did not get any letter relating to Nur Hossain’s extradition from the Indian government,” replying to a query about press report, he told journalists at his Secretariat office in city yesterday. He said Bangladesh is ready to accept Nur Hossain if India returns him. On Tuesday, country’s some newspapers ran stories that the process of extradition of Nur Hossain from India seems to be gathering momentum with the West Bengal government seeking to withdraw charges of trespassing against him. The Indian state has moved the Barasat CJM court to drop all charges against Nur before another court framed charges against him. On April 27, 2014, Narayanganj city panel mayor Nazrul Islam, his driver and three associates, lawyer Chandan Sarkar, and his driver were abducted. Their bodies were found in the Shitalakkhya river later. Nur Hossaion was the main accused in the case. After the killing, Nur fled to India and was detained by law enforcers in Kolkata for intruding into India. He is now at the Dum Dum Central Jail. On June 14 in 2014, Nur Hossain along with his two accomplices Kana Suman and Wahiduzzaman were arrested from Indraprastha Apartment in Baguiati near Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Airport.
On April 8 this year, detectives submitted the chargesheet of the Narayanganj seven-murder case against 35, naming Nur Hossain as the prime accused. In June, 2014, Bangladesh sent a request to India urging it to return Nur Hossain. Later replying to an Indian External Affairs Ministry’s letter received in December in 2014, Bangladesh Home Ministry sent another letter to the Indian External Affairs Ministry on March 1 this year seeking date and time of handing over of Nur.
The Indian letter mentioned that India was ready to send Nur back and it wanted to know when and where the country could do so. If Nur is handed over to Bangladesh, it would be the first instance in which a suspect is handed over to Bangladesh under the extradition treaty between the two countries.
