Dhaka waits for Delhi's response

Bangladesh is awaiting an official response from India over the arrest and extradition of Nur Hossain, State Minister for Foreign Affairs M Shahriar Alam said yesterday.
“We've written to the Indian authorities, and are waiting for their response,” he told newsmen at the capital's Sonargaon Hotel.
Hossain is the key accused in the sensational seven-murder in Narayanganj.
Meanwhile, Shahjahan Ali Mollah, chief of the government-formed probe body, has said the committee members may fly to Kolkata to quiz Hossain if the extradition takes time.
The government, said the state minister, will let the media know about the matter once it gets any feedback from India. “It usually takes time. We're working on it through maintaining diplomatic protocol,” he added.
His comments came a day after he told the BBC Bangla Service that Bangladesh had initiated the process of bringing Hossain back home.
Shahriar said the government had received support from Interpol, which was necessary for the arrest of Hossain.
The intergovernmental organisation on its website published six charges brought against Hossain by the Bangladesh authorities.

The charges are: murder, hiding evidence of crimes, kidnapping or abducting persons with intent to wrongful confinement, wrongful restraint, impersonating a public servant and group involvement in crime.
On Saturday night in Kolkata, Indian police arrested Nur Hossain and his two associates. The next day, a court placed each of the three men on an eight-day remand.
Hossain could be the first Bangladeshi to be deported since the signing of an extradition treaty between India and Bangladesh last year, according to home ministry sources.
QUIZZING OF NUR HOSSAIN
Probe committee chief Shahjahan Ali Mollah said the committee wanted to quiz Hossain in Bangladesh, but his team might travel to Kolkata if required.
A visit to Kolkata will entail fulfilment of all formal procedures by the committee, Mollah, additional secretary in the public administration ministry, told this newspaper.
The probe body yesterday quizzed four Rab men at the Narayanganj Circuit House, reports our Narayanganj correspondent.
An official at the Narayanganj deputy commissioner's office said drivers of the arrested Rab officials and the bodyguard of Lt Commander MM Rana had been summoned by the probe committee.
Earlier on June 10, the committee visited the Rab-11 headquarters at Adamjee and the camp office in Narayanganj town, where it quizzed several officials of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) who were on duty on April 27, the day seven people were abducted in Narayanganj.
Six bodies were found floating in the Shitalakkhya on April 30, while the seventh was recovered from the river the next day. Among the victims are Narayanganj panel mayor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Sarkar.
Councillor of ward-4, Hossain was a close aide to Narayanganj-4 Awami League lawmaker Shamim Osman. He fled the country after the gruesome murder of the seven.
Nazrul's father-in-law Shahidul Islam complained soon after the murders that Hossain and some others had bribed some Rab-11 officials Tk 6 crore to kill Nazrul.
Three top officials of Rab-11 -- Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, Maj Arif Hossain and Lt Commander MM Rana -- were fired for their alleged involvement in the murder. They are now behind bars.