Nepal Police have handed over Siyam Hussain, a Bangladeshi citizen accused in the murder case of MP Anwarul Azim Anar, to India.
He was sent to India by land on Monday, reports Nepali outlet citing Nepal Police.
Siyam was arrested from the border area of Nepal last Thursday. The senior officials of India had also requested the Nepal Police not to extradite him to Bangladesh.
Although Bangladesh Police wanted Siyam, he was sent to India because he had come from India, said Nepal police.
A high police source said, “Mohammad Siyam Hussain was handed over to Indian authorities by Nepal’s INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization) branch on Monday morning after Nepal Police contacted him.”
According to police, the Special Bureau and INTERPOL branch had been discussing deporting Hussain from the beginning.
An officer of the Special Bureau of Nepal Police said that they had informed the Bangladeshi team that they could not directly send him to Bangladesh as it is a matter of saving lives. According to the officer, only IGP Kunwar, DIG Ramdutt Joshi and an officer of INTERPOL branch were aware of this case.
The police also responded to Bangladesh Police that Nepal has not entered into any extradition treaty with any country, so they were unable to send Hussain to Bangladesh. Nepal police objected to sending Siyam to Bangladesh because according to laws of Bangladesh, he could face the death penalty.
Nepal-India police have been informally cooperating in crime control for a long time and the criminals are also involved in the exchange. Police believed it would be easy to extradite him to India because a Bangladeshi MP was murdered in Kolkata.
A team of four members from the Detective Branch (DB) under the Dhaka Metropolitan Police had come to Kathmandu to pick Siyam up. The team met a senior officer of Nepal Police and requested them to deport Siyam. The Bangladesh Police team returned after the Nepal Police disregarded their request.
After discovering Siyam’s alleged involvement in the murder of Bangladeshi MP Anar, he was taken into custody by the police.
Bangladeshi MP Anar was found murdered in Kolkata on 22 May.
