Indian police reject DMP’s claims on Hadi murder suspects’ arrest
News Desk:
India’s Meghalaya Police and the Border Security Force (BSF) have rejected claims by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) that the two main suspects in the murder of Sharif Osman bin Hadi fled to India and that two of their alleged abetters were arrested across the border.
Around 11:30am on Sunday, the DMP said the prime suspects had crossed the border and were currently in India, and that two individuals assisting them had been detained by Meghalaya Police, reports bdnews24.com.
However, shortly afterwards, a report published by Indian daily Hindustan Times quoted Meghalaya Police and the BSF as denying both assertions.
According to the Hindustan Times report, Indian authorities said no evidence has been found to support the claim that the suspects were in India.
They also said the two individuals named by the DMP as helpers could not be identified in Meghalaya state. Speaking at a media briefing on Sunday on the progress of the Hadi murder case, DMP Additional Commissioner (Crime and Operations) SN Nazrul Islam said the two main suspects, Faisal Karim and Alamgir Sheikh, had fled to India.
He claimed that through “informal channels” with Meghalaya Police, the DMP learned that two individuals identified by the single names Purti and Sami, who allegedly assisted Faisal, were arrested by Meghalaya Police.
He also provided an account of how the suspects allegedly fled. About two hours later, Hindustan Times published an online report quoting Meghalaya Police and the BSF as rejecting the DMP’s assertions.
A senior Meghalaya Police official was quoted as saying, “No formal or informal communication has been received from Bangladesh police. None of the accused named in the report have been traced in Garo Hills, and no arrests have been made.”
The report also said the BSF supported the Meghalaya Police’s claims.
OP Upadhyay, inspector general of the BSF’s Meghalaya Frontier, rejected the DMP’s claims, saying: “There is no evidence whatsoever of these individuals crossing the international border from the Haluaghat sector into Meghalaya. No such incident has been detected or reported by the BSF. These claims are baseless and misleading.”