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Dhaka wants 'criminals' held in Kolkata sent back

Dhaka wants 'criminals' held in Kolkata sent back

Author: Haroon Habib
Publication: The Hindu
Date: November 22, 2002
URL: http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/11/22/stories/2002112204751200.htm

Bangladesh has expressed dissatisfaction over the `delay' in informing it about the arrest of two of its criminals in Kolkata on Saturday and said it was still awaiting a positive response from India on their return. The Government also expressed frustration at the reported release of seven other criminals after their arrest by the Kolkata police. Officials and media have claimed, that the Kolkata police arrested Liaquat, Arman, Kala Jahangir, Pichchi Hannan, Killer Abbas and four other - `most wanted criminals'. However, they later allegedly released all excepting Liaquat and Arman, the two notorious ones, against whom a host of criminal cases are pending at home.

The Foreign Secretary, Shamser Mobin Chowdhury, said at a press briefing here today that in the absence of an extradition treaty between the two countries the `criminals' could not be deported to Bangladesh.

Meanwhile, Tauhid Hussain, the Deputy High Commissioner of the country in Kolkata has requested the State Government to hand over the `most wanted criminals' so that they could be tried at home.

A Foreign Office spokesman said the detective chief of West Bengal even claimed to have handed over the seven criminals to the Bangladeshi authorities. ``How could he lie so blatantly'', the official was quoted as saying by the Daily Star. ``The Deputy High Commissioner does not know anything, yet they have been handed over to us!''

The coverage of the arrest of the two criminals by the Kolkata media shows how misinformed some of the leading publications were, the Dhaka dailies, including the Daily Star said. These persons were wanted for murder, extortion and all sorts of criminal activities and not known to have any links with any fundamentalist groups, they said.
 


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