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Top Criminals, Suspects of Aug 21 Grenade Attack

Interpol help sought for return of 15 from India

Sharier Khan
Bangladesh has sought help of die Interpol to bring back from India some 15 top listed criminals, including three suspects of die August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League (AL) rally, said a well-placed source in die Rapid Acdon Battalion (Rab).
'Hie criminals, who die government agencies claim to have links with the grenade attack on the AL rally, are Joy, Mukul and Robin.
Other criminals include ’ Chhunga" Babu, Jishan and Imon.
They are residing in Kolkata to avoid arrest, while they are controlling the underworld in Bangladesh from there, according lo intelligence sources.
The government move for the Interpol assistance has been taken in the face of international pressure to curb terrorism, complete investigations into several sensational incidents and bring the culprits to
trial.
The government has accordingly sent the files on the top 15 criminals living in Kolkata to the Interpol. It plans to request India, with support from the Interpol, w deport these criminals so that they can be arrested al the border.
Bangladesh earlier asked India to lake measures against the lop Bangladeshi criminals who had taken refuge in Kolkata in the last
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couple of years. However, as Bangladesh itself did not reciprocate till recently with India's request to take action against Indian insurgents allegedly staying in Bangladesh, India so far took no such move.
"Besides, there is no extradition treaty between the two countries. Even if India arrested the Bangladeshi criminals, it would not hand them over to us," the Rab source said. "We must have some understanding with India first."
The India-Bangladesh relationship nose-dived over a number of issues in the recent years, particularly over India's security concerns and Bangladesh's nonchalance, and India's move to cancel the Saarc Summit in February this year. To improve this situation, the joint forces in late May undertook an antiinsurgent drive in the greater Sylhet region, killed six insurgents and arrested nine.
Both the foreign minister and state minister for home later talked India into launching a patrolling of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and the Indian Border Security Force (BSF), each operating simultaneously from their side of the border. The foreign ministry sources said India is cooperating and has now
tightened the security breach at the border.
Meanwhile, based on the statements of Arman--one of the top 23 criminals of the country who was arrested in early June from Dhanmondi area--the law enforcers arrested one George Miah. A petty criminal, George came up with a confessional statement that he along with top criminal Subrata Bain and 12 others had staged the grenade attack on the AL rally. Some of these criminals are now staying in Kolkata, he said.
The AL, however, rejected George Miah's statement terming it a fake one to mislead the investigation. The press also reported that the statement is full of inconsistencies, and that it does not make sense why some criminals would attack a rally of a big political party unless some other higher level conspirators were backing them.
The intelligence sources claimed that they were "convinced" that Subrata led the grenade attack, but they do not know whether Subrata is now in Bangladesh or in India.
Meanwhile, Arman, who has not been accused in the grenade attack case, has been kept in the Kashimpur jail. He is cooperating with the detectives in revealing the
criminal network existing in Bangladesh and West Bengal of India, claimed the intelligence sources.
"Our investigation into this case leads to Joy, Mukul and Robin," noted an intelligence official. "We do not have any proof or information as to who had employed them for the grenade attack. But we can gather more information if we can arrest these three."
Meanwhile, State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar will be on a 10-day government visit to the USA where he will meet the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and US security officials to talk about assistance on curbing terrorism.
He will also place reports to the US government on the condition of law and order in Bangladesh and answer questions on violation of human rights through the extrajudicial killings by the law enforcement agencies.
The sources added that Babar will also discuss the rise of militants in Bangladesh.
However, while talking to the press recently, the minister said, "The details of my discussion with the US government have not been chalked out yet."