Kolkata/Ranaghat: A 28-year-old Bangladeshi national, one of the main accused in the sexual assault of a 72-year-old nun at a convent school in Ranaghat, was arrested from Sealdah station.
The CID said that Nazrul Islam alias Naju, was arrested from the Sealdah station while he was getting off from a local train on Wednesday evening. “Our sources informed that Nazrul was trying to reach Kolkata. Working on the tip-off our officers were waiting for him at the Sealdah station and caught him when he was getting down from Bongaon local (suburban train),” SS CID Chittaranjan Nag said on Thursday.
Asked where he was hiding since the crime happened in March, Mr Nag said, “He was hiding somewhere in the border areas of Bangladesh. Probably after he was chased by police there, he sneaked past the border to get into India. He was trying to flee somewhere.”
Nazrul, a resident of the Bejpur TB Clinic area under Kotwali police station in Jeshore in Bangladesh, was produced before a court at Ranaghat in Nadia district, assistant public prosecutor of Ranaghat court Pradip Kumar Pramanick said.
Additional chief judicial magistrate Bishnubaran Mondal remanded him to 14 days’ police custody. Gopal Sarkar and Salim Seikh, the two co-accused in the case, were too produced in the same court. Their bails were rejected and they were also sent to 14 days’ judicial custody.
