Bangladesh police arrest Dawood aide to probe terror links
4 Dec 2014 11:54 PM GMT
A close aide of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was on Wednesday arrested after he completed a five-year jail term in Bangladesh and was sent to police custody for questioning over possible terror links. Â
Abdul Rauf alias Daud Merchant, who was convicted of killing music baron Gulshan Kumar in 1997, was remanded to police custody for three days by a court here. Merchant, 44, was re-arrested by police here after serving five years for illegally entering Bangladesh in May 2009.   Â
Metropolitan Magistrate M Nuru Mia placed Merchant on a three-day remand, court officials said. The police had sought his seven-day remand. Police said he was to be interrogated to find out if he had any links to militants.   Â
Merchant was earlier handed down life imprisonment for the murder of Kumar. But he fled India while on a parole to visit his family in Mumbai.         Â
In May 2009, he was arrested again by Bangladesh Police from central Brahmanbaria district on a tip-off.          Â
Abdul Rauf alias Daud Merchant, who was convicted of killing music baron Gulshan Kumar in 1997, was remanded to police custody for three days by a court here. Merchant, 44, was re-arrested by police here after serving five years for illegally entering Bangladesh in May 2009.   Â
Metropolitan Magistrate M Nuru Mia placed Merchant on a three-day remand, court officials said. The police had sought his seven-day remand. Police said he was to be interrogated to find out if he had any links to militants.   Â
Merchant was earlier handed down life imprisonment for the murder of Kumar. But he fled India while on a parole to visit his family in Mumbai.         Â
In May 2009, he was arrested again by Bangladesh Police from central Brahmanbaria district on a tip-off.          Â
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