One of Bangladesh’s most wanted criminals, Nur Hossain, was released on Thursday from a jail in Kolkata and is likely to be deported to that country to face trial in connection with the killing of seven persons in 2014, a day after Dhaka handed over top ULFA leader Anup Chetia.
Hossain was released from the Dum Dum Central Jail on Thursday evening and will be sent back to Bangladesh soon, a senior government official said.
The Bangladeshi national is wanted in his country for the killing of seven persons in Narayanganj district adjacent to Dhaka.
The release of Hossain, who was ordered to be deported to Bangladesh by a court in Kolkata last month by December 15, came a day after Chetia was handed over to India by Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal was quoted in local media reports there as saying that “we will bring him back when the government of that country tells us he has been freed...we will receive him at the border just the way we left Anup Chetia there”.