N’GANJ 7 MURDERS : Noor Hossain handed over to Bangladesh [ Tritiyo Matra News ]

N’GANJ 7 MURDERS : Noor Hossain handed over to Bangladesh

Local November 13, 2015

The Indian Border Security Force on Thursday night handed over the prime suspect in Narayanganj seven-murder, Noor Hossain, to Border Guard Bangladesh authority at Benapol border.
Border guard director general Major General Aziz Ahmed told Ekattar Television that BSF handed over Noor Hossain to a border guard team led by Major Liakat at 11:35pm.
The BGB team then handed over Noor Hossian to a joint team of Rapid Action Battalion and police amid tight security.
The joint team along with Noor Hossain headed for Dhaka immediately after the handover, said Narayanganj superintendent of police Kh Mahid Uddin.
He said Noor would be produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court as part of the execution of warrant for his arrest.
Indian prison authorities released Noor Hossain, who rose from being a transport worker to a city councillor, in the evening and escorted him to Benapole border, an official at the land port said.
Earlier on Thursday, a team led by Narayanganj additional superintendent
of police (crime) Moklesur Rahman went to Benapole to escort Noor Hossain, a dismissed councillor of Narayanganj City Corporation, to Narayanganj.
On April 27, 2014, the Rapid Action Battalion allegedly picked up seven people – the then Narayanganj city panel mayor Nazrul Islam and four of his associates, and senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar and his driver – from Dhaka-Narayanganj link road.
Their bodies were found floating in Sitalakhya River after a couple of days, triggering violent protests in the city and elsewhere.
Noor Hossain, also Awami League Siddhirganj’s unit senior vice-president, went into hiding following the incident.
Nazrul’s widow Selina Islam Beauty filed a case against Noor Hossain and five others. Chandan Kumar’s family filed another case against unnamed people.
In May 2014, the police sought the Interpol’s cooperation to arrest Noor Hossain, who fled to India nearly a week after the killings.
On June 14, 2014 the Special Task Force of the West Bengal police arrested Noor along with his few associates at Baguiati, not far from Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.
On April 8, 2015, investigation officer of the cases inspector Mamun-Or-Rashid submitted two charge sheets against 35 people including Noor Hossain and 25 officers and rankers of Rabid Action Battalion for the killing of the seven people.
The 35 accused also included detained the then RAB-11 commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, also son-in-law of cabinet member Mufazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya, the then RAB-11 special company commander Major Arif Hossain and the then RAB-11 Crime Prevention Company commander Lieutenant Commander Masud Rana.
The three military officers had been sent into retirement. They are now behind the bars.
In the statement before judicial magistrate, sacked major Arif reportedly described how he was associated with Noor Hossain and how Noor bribed him.
October 16, 2015, a district court in India ordered extradition of Noor Hossain to Bangladesh by December 15.
The Barasat Chief Judicial Magistrates’ Court in North 24 Pargana district of West Bengal in India passed the order as it withdrew trespassing charge against him.
The court asked the jail superintendent of the Damdam Jail, where Noor Hossain was detained, to extradite him to Bangladesh.
Noor Hossain had set up a booming illegal sand trade on the banks of Sitalakhya.
Noor was handed over to Bangladesh a day after Bangladesh handed over United Liberation Front of Asom general secretary Anup Chetia and two of his associates to India in secrecy on early Wednesday.
On December 21, 1997, Anup was arrested in Dhaka along with the two associates on charges of trespassing into Bangladesh with fake passports hiding their identities and illegally carrying foreign currencies.
Anup and his associates Babul Sharma and Lokkhi Prashad were handed over to India at the Dawki border point in Sylhet, said senior home ministry officials.