Thursday, April 24, 2008

Indian Intelligence Agency to probe Tripura Minister's alleged nexus with HUJI militant

AGARTALA: The Tripura government has ordered a CID inquiry into the alleged nexus between Bangladeshi arms dealer,Mamun Mia and Tripura Minister Sahid Chowdhury who resigned as the State Food and Minority Affairs Minister on Thursday, official sources said on Saturday.

A five-member CID team, headed by DSP Priya Lal Majumder, would also interact with West Bengal CID, which provided the the information about Mia and seek information about the present status of investigation in the neighbouring state.

The CID would also investigate how the Bangladeshi National, who is alleged to be a member of the Harkat-ul-jihadi-islami, could live in India without a valid passport and obtain a permanent resident certificate in Tripura, the sources said.

A team of CID personnel of West Bengal and Tripura police arrested Mia from a house at Ramnagar area here on March 28. He was flown to Kolkata the next day on transit remand.

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEP20080419055152&Page=P&Title=Nation&Topic=0

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