Security agencies in Meghalaya have denied claims by the Bangladesh Police that the killers of Inquilab Moncho leader Sharif Osman Hadi had escaped from the neighbouring country and entered the state.
BSF chief in Meghalaya, Inspector General O.P Opadhyay said there was no evidence of any illegal cross-border movement into the state.“The claims are unfounded and misleading as the BSF has neither detected nor received any report of such an incident,” Inspector General Upadhyay said. Hadi, 32, was shot in the head on December 12 during an election campaign in Dhaka. He was airlifted to Singapore for advanced treatment but succumbed to his injuries on December 18.
Earlier on Sunday, a top Dhaka Metropolitan Police officer said that two primary suspects in the Hadi murder case have crossed into Meghalaya via the Haluaghat border “with the help of local associates”.
A senior Meghalaya police officer also said that there was “no input or intelligence to corroborate” the claim of the suspects’ presence in the Garo Hills region.“Local police units have not detected any such movement and coordination with central agencies was ongoing,” the state police officer said.
BSF officials maintain that the personnel deployed along the international border have been kept on a high state of alert at all times to avert any untoward incident, particularly in view of the unrest and volatile situation prevailing in Bangladesh.They reiterated that the international border in the sector was under constant surveillance and that any infiltration attempt from across the border would be promptly detected and dealt with.
