Probe team may go to India for quizzing Nur Hossain

An administrative committee probing the abduction and killing of seven people in Narayganj will go to India, if needed, to interrogate prime suspect Nur Hossain.
Committee chief Shahjahan Ali Molla, additional secretary to the ministry of Public Administration, told bdnews24.com.
Nur Hossain was arrested from an apartment near Kolkata airport on Saturday night.
"Nur Hossain will be questioned after he is brought back to the country," Molla said.
Members of the committee will go to India to interrogate him if he was not repatriated before the submission of the probe report, he said.
The High Court has ordered the body to submit a progress report on July 9.
Molla said they would need Indian approval to question Hossain. "We will discuss the issue with Bangladesh's home and foreign ministries."
He said they were waiting for Nur Hossain's repatriation.
If he was not brought back soon, the probe team might have to go to India to question him, Molla said.
The West Bengal Police was checking the details of calls made by Nur Hossain from mobile phones while absconding in Kolkata.
Hossain is believed to be the mastermind behind the simultaneous abduction and killing of seven people in Narayanganj, for which some RAB officers are now also in the dock.
Nur Hossain was arrested from Indraprastha Apartment in Baguihati near Kolkata's Netaji Subhas international airport -- a high rise building from which top criminal Subrata Bain had been arrested in 2012.
"This place looks like having a strong connection with the Bangladesh underworld," said a top Kolkata police official.
"Bain was picked up from this apartment block two years ago and charged with dealing in fake currency, for possession of illegal weapons and illegal trespass into India," the official told bdnews24.com.
An Intelligence Bureau (IB) official said that they had reports about several top Bangladesh criminals like Khandkhar Islam Joy, Picchi Hannan and Zafar Manik have stayed at Indraprastha apartments.
"But whenever we passed information about these criminals to Kolkata police, they appeared reluctant to go after these criminals holed up in this apartment. We had reports that some Kolkata police officers actually used them as source to track fake currency rackets," the IB official said.
The official, however, said some of these criminals from Bangladesh may have political connections. Bangladesh has for long been asking India to crack down against criminals from their country who have made Kolkata a happy hunting grounds.
"We have done our bit tracking these criminals down to the extent possible but law and order is a state subject and if the state or city police are not keen to crack down against these Bangladesh criminals, we can't do very much," the IB official observed.
But he said new Indian home minister Rajnath Singh has been given a detailed briefing on this issue and also how some top Jamaat leaders had found illegal shelter in Kolkata.
"He may take this up rather strongly with the West Bengal government," the official said.
UNB adds: Bangladesh is waiting to have an official detailed response from India over Nur Hossain, including his extradition process, said State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam on Tuesday.
 "We've written to the Indian authorities, and we're waiting for their response," he told reporters.
Shahriar Alam said the government will let the media know once it gets the official feedback from India. "It usually takes time. We're working maintaining diplomatic protocol."
The state minister also said they cannot comment on the media reports in which case Nur Hossain, the prime suspect in the Narayanganj seven murders, has been shown arrested in Kolkata. "We can only comment on official response," Alam added.
He also said they requested Delhi to inform Dhaka about Nur Hossain in details.
The state minister said the government has got support from the Interpol which was necessary for his arrest.