Suspicious Movement: Court discharges Daud Merchant
A Dhaka court yesterday cleared Indian fugitive criminal Abdur Rauf Daud Merchant, a suspected associate of underworld don Daud Ibrahim, of charges for suspicious movement.
Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Mainuddin passed the order after scrutinising a probe report on the allegation submitted by investigators, court sources said.
Jahangir Kabir, senior jail super of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj, told The Daily Star last night that they received the court order.
However, Daud Merchant would not be released as he still stands accused in another case filed with Adabar Police Station, added Jahangir.
In January this year, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said an initiative had been taken for Daud's repatriation. But, since then he had been in jail.
Police held Daud Merchant, a convicted killer of music baron Gulshan Kumar, in 2009 for intruding into Bangladesh.
Daud Merchant was arrested along with another Indian national Mohammad Zahid in Brahmanbaria where he had been hiding in guise of a Bangladeshi citizen for around a month.
In December 2014, he obtained bail in a case and was subsequently released from Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur. He, however, was rearrested outside the jail.
He was then produced before a Dhaka court and it placed him on a three-day remand in a case filed under section 54 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for suspicious movement.
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