India ready to extradite Nur Hossain:FM

New Delhi has agreed to send back Nur Hossain, the prime suspect of the Naryanganj multiple murders,foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali told Parliament on Wednesday. Replying to a query from Jatiya Party MP Pir Fazlur Rahman, he said: "The matter was discussed during the recent visit of the Indian foreign minister, Sushma Swaraj. The Indian government has agreed to extradite him." Hossain and his two accomplices were arrested from an apartment at Baguiati, not far from Kolkata's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, on June 15. The Narayanganj City Ward-4 councillor was booked under Arms Act and Foreigners Act for illegal trespass into Indian territory without valid travel documents and for illegal possession of a weapon. All three are currently in police custody. His arrest was made nearly one and a half months after the seven murders in Narayanganj that shook the country. The port city’s Ward-2 Councillor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar and five others were abducted on April 27. Their decomposed bodies were recovered from the Shitalakhyya River several days later.