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Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed yesterday said a formal request has been sent to India through the foreign ministry to bring back an accused in the murder case of Inquilab Moncho Convener Sharif Osman Bin Hadi.

The handover process was underway under the existing extradition treaty between the two countries, he told reporters after paying homage at the Rajarbagh Police Memorial on the occasion of Independence and National Day.

A court in Bidhannagar, West Bengal handed over Faisal Karim Masud, the prime accused in the murder of Sharif Osman Hadi, and his associate Alamgir Hossain to India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA), according to Prothom Alo.

The NIA took them to Delhi on Monday night on transit remand, where they are to be produced before a special NIA court, the report said.

The agency sought the custody of Faisal and Alamgir at the Bidhannagar Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate’s Court in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, and the court granted the plea.

Subject to the court’s permission, NIA investigators would interrogate the two in the interest of the investigation, it added.

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