West Bengal police is looking for the owner of the flat, from where Nur Hossain was arrested with two accomplices on Saturday night.
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 mediapersons 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.
He 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.
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“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 sent him back to Bangladesh, because that is where he has committed major crimes,” the official said.
Meanwhile, the BJP, which has earlier accused West Bengal’s Trinamul government of harbouring Bangladesh fundamentalists said on Monday that Nur Hossain’s arrest proved how easy it was for Bangladeshi criminals to find shelter in Kolkata.
BJP leader Samik Bhattacharyya told bdnews24.com that central intelligence should check whether Nur Hossain had received support from any ‘political element’ during his stay in Kolkata.
“We also want top Jamaat leaders sheltered by Trinamul Congress to be arrested and send back to Bangladesh along with Nur Hossain,” Bhattacharyya said.
He said his party had detailed list of Jamaat leaders who were in Kolkata living under protection from top Trinamul leaders .
Bhattacharyya said a Trinamul MP with ‘established Jamaat links’ was the kingpin of the support network for Jamaat leaders living in Kolkata.
Source: Bd news24
