West Bengal (WB) police is looking for the owner of the flat, from where Nur Hossain was arrested with two accomplices on Saturday night, reports bdnews24.com.
A police officer said the main thrust of police investigation in West Bengal is to find out the networks that supports Bangladesh criminals or fugitives from justice like Nur Hossain find 'easy and ready shelter' in Kolkata.
"That is our real purpose, we want to find out the pattern of support that was available to Nur Hossain, perhaps on payment . But at some point, we will have to send him back to Bangladesh, because that is where he has committed major crimes," the official said.
The police is also checking the background of the two men who were nabbed and shown arrested with Nur Hossain.
Obaidur Rahman and Sumon Khan were produced in court with Nur Hossain and sent to police remand with him for eight days.
Sumon Khan, tall and burly, tried to obstruct reporters from questioning Nur Hossain on Sunday at Barasat court.
He even got into heated arguments with media persons essentially to let Nur Hossain be taken away by police without the media been able to really question the Narayanganj councillor.
"We are trying to investigate whether both Sumon Khan and Obaidur Rahman are Bangladesh nationals and entered India with Nur Hossain or whether they are Indian nationals providing Nur Hossain shelter and support in Kolkata," said a senior police official of West Bengal police.
He was not willing to be named because he was not authorised to speak to media.
He said the owner of flat no 503 at Indraprastha Apartments in Baguiati, not far from Kolkata's Netaji Subhas airport, seems not to be easily available.
"We are having to look for the flat owner. Normally, he or she would have come to police on hearing someone staying in his or her flat has been arrested, but this flat owner has not done that in spite of the media coverage of Nur Hossain's arrest. So, we have reasons to believe the flat owner is dodging police," the official said.
Meanwhile, the Home Ministry has sent a letter to the Foreign Ministry seeking steps for bringing back Nur Hossain, the prime suspect of the Narayanganj seven-murder case, from India.
"A letter has been sent to the Foreign Ministry to bring Nur Hossain back," State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan said Monday.
Earlier on Sunday, Asaduzzaman told the media that the government has started the process to bring Nur Hossain and his aides back from India under the prisoner exchange treaty.
On the same day, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam said the Foreign Ministry would act fast once it gets a request from the Home Ministry to bring Nur Hossain back.
UNB adds: LGRD Minister and Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam said on Monday the government is still in the dark as it does not know anything about the arrest of Nur Hossain, the prime accused in the Narayanganj seven-murder case, in Kolkata.
"We don't know anything in this connection. What we've come to know is through newspapers," Ashraf told reporters after inaugurating a two-week tree plantation campaign at city's Khamar Bari.
Nur Hossain was arrested from an apartment in Kolkata on Saturday night and placed on an eight-day remand the following day.
WB police trying to find out pattern of support Nur got
FE Team | Published: June 17, 2014 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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