The government has started process to bring back Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the seven-murder case of Narayanganj, in the country.
The Home Ministry has sent a letter to the Foreign Ministry seeking steps for bringing back Nur Hossain from India, said State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Monday. Earlier on Sunday, the minister said that the government has started the process to bring Nur Hossain and his aides back from India under the prisoner exchange treaty.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam said that his ministry would act fast once it gets a request from the Home Ministry to bring back Nur Hossain. He also said that Nur Hossain could be brought back using two ways, the extradition treaty between Bangladesh and India that came into effect in October last year or with the help of the Interpol.
Talking to The New Nation, Narayanganj’s Superintendent of Police Khandaker Muhid Uddin said that they had already started the process officially and unofficially to bring back Nur Hossain. He will be brought back within the quickest possible time, he said.
The SP said, “I have sent the letter attaching all the necessary to the Police Headquarters. The Headquarters submitted the later to the Home Ministry and the ministry sent it to
the Indian High Commission today (Monday) through the Foreign Ministry. The Indian authorities are taking the initiative of sending Nur Hossain to us. We are also contacting with Interpol in this regard. We are also in touch with the West Bengal police. We have spoken with high officials of Indian police many times after getting the news of Nur Hossain’s arrest.”
According to sources, the Indian authorities have also informed the matter officially to the Bangladeshi High Commission in Kolkata. They also told the high commission that they would send Nur Hossain as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, LGRD Minister and Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam on Monday said, the government does not know officially anything about the arrest of Nur Hossain. “We have come to know through newspapers,” he told reporters after inaugurating a tree plantation campaign in the city.
Meanwhile, relatives of the murder victims, locals and lawyer of Narayanganj held demonstrations in Narayanganj demanding that Nur Hossain be brought back immediately.
Earlier, on Saturday night, West Bengal police arrested Nur Hossain with his two accomplices. A Kolkata court on Sunday placed them on an eight-day remand.
According to sources, the West Bengal police are also looking for the owner of the flat, from where Nur Hossain was arrested with the two accomplices. The police are also checking the background of the two men who were nabbed and shown arrested with Nur Hossain.
Nur Hossian and some of his associates remained absconding following the abduction and killing of Narayanganj city panel mayor Nazrul Islam, lawyer Chandan Sarker and five others. On April 27, the victims were abducted from Narayanganj, and later their bodies were recovered from the Shitalakhya River.
