Sunday, Jun 22, 2014
Kolkata: The recent killing of a Trinamool Congress leader inside a local party office and murder of a Bar Association president by Bangladeshi criminals who had entered India illegally has forced the administration to step up vigil on the border.
According to North 24 Parganas police chief Tanmoy Roy Chowdhury, “many of these murders were being committed by Bangladeshi contract killers who had entered India through the porous border illegally and leave the country immediately after committing such heinous crimes after which it becomes almost impossible to nab them considering the complex international laws,” he said.
The arrest of Bangladeshi don Nur Hossain last week, who was accused of kidnapping and killing at least seven prominent persons in Bangladesh, from a city apartment clearly established the fact that the area is a safe haven for the Bangladeshi underworld.
Even chief minister Mamata Banerjee had expressed concern in a recent meeting forcing the district administration to take immediate steps to curb this infiltration.
“A murder took place inside the party office at Sodepur. The Barrackpore Bar Association president was shot. Is this a joke? What’s happening? What is the police doing? Murders are being committed by hiring assailants from Bangladesh for as little as Rs200 [Dh12],” Banerjee is reported to be angry with the developments.
She has also asked the police not only to nab the culprits but also ensure that the people who hired these criminals be arrested so that this does not continue further.
Police has launched a massive manhunt all over the bordering areas to identify illegal immigrants and are also meeting the BSF (Border Security Force) official to determine how such a large number could cross over into the country and start living here. They are also in contact with the officials of the Bangladesh government trying to secure the names and photographs of known criminals.
The Central intelligence agencies had alerted West Bengal Police that along with the Bangladeshi mafia, and religious fundamentalists might also have sneaked into India and set up bases in the state’s border districts.
One of the reports even said that terrorist organisations might carry out terror attacks in the state and the central Home Ministry had asked the state government to take necessary steps to foil them. Besides asking the BSF to remain vigilant, the Ministry had asked the state government to carry out combing operations in the border districts. Sources said during the political turbulence in Bangladesh a few months ago, at least 25,000 Bangladeshis, mostly criminals and terrorists, had entered India.
By Archisman Dinda ?Correspondent
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