Two separate letters written in this regard by top police officers from Bangladesh were submitted in the Bombay high court on Monday.
The absconding convict in the ‘Cassette king’ Gulshan Kumar murder case is in Bangladesh police custody.
Two separate letters written in this regard by top police officers from Bangladesh were submitted in the Bombay high court on Monday.
The letters submitted by additional public prosecutor Mankuwar Deshmukh stated that Abdul Rauf Merchant, who was convicted for killing Kumar in 1997, was arrested in Bangladesh. Merchant absconded after he was released on furlough by the high court in March 2009.
Hasib Aziz, AIG (National Crime Bureau, Dhaka) of Bangladesh police sent a letter to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), New Delhi, confirming that Merchant was arrested in Bangladesh in March last year.
In another letter sent to CBI and signed by Mohammed Aurangazeb Mohbuoppm, special superintendent of police, Dhaka, it is stated that Merchant was arrested in Bangladesh on March 29, 2009.
The letter also stated that Merchant is accused of illegally entering Bangladesh without valid documents. He has also been accused of obtaining a fake passport on a false identity of a Bangladesh national named Shek Abdur Rahman.
“(His) repatriation procedure may be initiated once the verdict from the learned court (in Bangladesh) is received,” adds the letter.
The court was told about Merchant’s ‘great escape’ when his appeal came up for hearing in high court last year.
He was the only one to be convicted in the Gulshan Kumar murder case in 2001. A special court had acquitted 18 other accused. The state has challenged the acquittal of two accused, Rashid Dawood Merchant and film producer Ramesh Taurani.
The high court had also suggested that the authorities should consider cancelling Merchant’s passport and take action against the person who had stood as a surety for him when he was released on furlough.
The case will come up for hearing on July 12.
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