MUJIB KILLING Bangladesh awaits India’s response over Moslehuddin’s ‘arrest’

Bangladesh is waiting for Indian response to its email seeking details about the reported arrest of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s fugitive killer Risaldar Moslehuddin.

Various Indian media reported that Moslehuddin was arrested at Bongaon in West Bengal in India recently.

Bangladesh police National Central Bureau ( Interpol) assistant inspector general Mahiul Islam told New Age on Tuesday that they came to know about the reported arrest from media reports on Monday and later on the day communicated with their Indian counterpart seeking details of it.

‘We are waiting for their response. We hope we will get it soon,’ said Mahiul.

A home ministry official said that as long as the issue was sensitive, media would be informed whenever information would be available.

With a video clipping, The Eastern Link, among other Indian media, wrote that the detained man had been running a shop of traditional Unani and Ayurvedic medicines for a while.

‘He looks every bit of what Moslehuddin was. We are waiting for identity confirmation from Bangladesh agencies before we send him back. The lockdown has also created some complications on sending him back,’ The Eastern Link quoted ‘a senior official of a counter-terrorism agency’.

It said Risaldar Moslehuddin had personally shot Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 15, 1975.

It went on India had recently nabbed another Mujib killer former captain Abdul Majed and sent him back to Bangladesh where he was hanged within two days of his formal arrest in Dhaka.

Indian agencies, on request from Bangladesh, have been after Moslehuddin and other Mujib killers since Sheikh Hasina’s first term in office 1996-2001, the report added.

It also reported after ex-captain Mazed was picked up in Calcutta and shown arrested in Dhaka last month, he is said to have provided fresh leads about Moslehuddin’s whereabouts.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net