Bangla nationwide who helped Hadi killers enter India held | India Information

KOLKATA: Bengal Police’s STF arrested a Bangladeshi nationwide accused of serving to two prime suspects, within the homicide of Bangladeshi youth activist Sharif Osman Hadi in Dhaka, illegally cross into India after the deadly Dec 12 assault, experiences Tamaghna Banerjee. Philip Sangma was picked up from Nadia district based mostly on intelligence inputs. Investigators claimed Sangma acted as a border tout and had facilitated the unlawful entry of Faisal Karim Masud and Alamgir Hossain, who had been arrested from Bongaon, a metropolis near the Bangladesh border, on March 8. They’re the prime suspects in Hadi’s homicide. Sangma was produced in a court docket on Saturday and remanded in police custody. Police mentioned that Sangma’s function got here to gentle in the course of the duo’s interrogation. They revealed that Sangma allegedly helped them cross the border by means of the Haluaghat (Bangladesh)-Dalupara (Meghalaya) route. They then travelled throughout India, attempting to evade arrest. “Sangma admitted to working as a border tout and facilitating unlawful migrants to cross the border by means of the Haluaghat-Dalupara route in trade for cash,” a senior officer mentioned. Police mentioned Sangma additionally confessed to arranging the entry of Masud and Hossain. Sangma later entered India illegally by means of the identical route amid stress from the legislation enforcement companies in Bangladesh and stayed at a number of places to keep away from detection.