Nur Hossain on remand in West Bengal

Edwin Lepcha, 2nd judicial magistrate in North 24 Parganas district court in India’s West Bengal state, has sent Nur Hossain to 8 days in police remand. The absconding Narayanganj councillor, prime accused in the 7-murder case, has been booked under Arms Act and Foreigners Act for illegal trespass into Indian territory without valid travel document and for illegal possession of a weapon. Nur was produced in the district court in Barasat by West Bengal police at 1.45pm local time on Sunday. Magistrate Lepcha observed that there is a prima facie case against Nur Hossain on the charges registered by police. So the remand request of the police to facilitate interrogation was allowed. Earlier in the day, Bangladesh’s State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said Dhaka had begun the process to bring back Nur Hossain. Nur Hossain, the Ward 4 councillor of Narayanganj City, was arrested by a team from the Special Task Force of the West Bengal police from Baguiati, not far from Kolkata’s Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport, late on Saturday night, according to a news agency.