The police have said the pistol and 20 bullets, recovered on Friday from the damaged car after it was hit by a train on the Malibagh level crossing in Dhaka, as belonged to Nur Hossain, the prime accused in Narayanganj seven-murder case. They said the 7.65 bore foreign-made pistol was licensed to Nur Hossain, who is now in jail in India.”The license of the pistol was given to Nur Hossain by Narayanganj district administration. Police have got enough evidence about issuing the license of the gun after verifying the documents at Narayanganj deputy commissioner’s office,” Abdul Majid, Officer-in-Charge of Kamalapur Railway Police Station, said on Saturday.Earlier on Friday afternoon, a black-colour car was hit by the Dhaka-bound ‘Chattala Express’ injuring three passengers in the car when it tried to slip under the closing gate of Malibagh level crossing defying red-signal. Police recovered one pistol, 20 bullets and several fake number plates from inside the car. But mysteriously, the injured passengers in the car went missing soon after the accident. The police, however, managed to uncover the identity of only one of the three absconding passengers. Sources said, the police have got the information after interrogating an injured passenger Ansar Ali at Apollo Hospital in the city on Friday late night. Ansar Ali, who hailed from Barisal, is now undergoing treatment there under police custody.Besides, the police have been conducting massive hunt to nab two other injured passengers raiding different clinics and hospitals in the city. Already they have conducted raids at Square Hospital at Panthapath and United Hospital at Gulshan, added the sources.”So far we know, several other suspects also crossed the level crossing in two other cars. We are now conducting an operation to find out the cars,” said Zahanagir Hossain Matubbar, Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.”We had earlier recovered nine licentiate arms of Nur Hossain. But two other arms — one pistol and another rifle — were missing. We recovered the missing pistol from the damaged car. Now we are looking for the missing rifle. Hope, we will get a clue about the missing rifle if the two injured passengers are arrested,” the DC further said. Nur Hossain, a councillor in Narayanganj City, fled the country shortly after the abduction and murder of the seven people, including Narayanganj panel mayor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Sarkar, on April 27.The bodies were found floating in the Shitalakkhya river three days after the abduction while another body was recovered also from the river the following day.Nur Hossain was arrested along with his two associates from near Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata, on June 14.
