The Border Security Force (BSF) and Meghalaya Police on Monday rejected the claims made by Bangladesh police that the two individuals accused in the killing of Inquilab Moncho leader Sharif Osman Hadi had crossed into the state.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police had stated that the two main suspects in the case entered Meghalaya through the Haluaghat border with the assistance of local associates.
The BSF called these claims "unfounded and misleading".
"There is no evidence to suggest that any individual crossed the international border from the Haluaghat sector into Meghalaya. The BSF has neither detected nor received any report of such an incident," said Inspector General O.P. Opadhyay.
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The state police also stated that there was no intelligence to support the claim of the suspects' presence in the Garo Hills region. The Garo Hills region is part of Meghalaya's western sector, which borders Bangladesh and is guarded by the BSF.
Hadi, who was a prominent figure in the massive agitation that led to the ouster of then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in August last year, was shot in the head on December 13. He succumbed to his injuries at a Singapore hospital on December 18.
Hadi’s death sparked a fresh wave of protests and violence in Bangladesh, with reports of attacks on minority communities emerging from various cities. Two Hindu men, Amrit Mondal and Dipu Chandra Das, were allegedly lynched by a mob, which also led to widespread protests in India.
