Nur Hossain denied bail by Indian court

  A court in West Bengal yesterday rejected the bail plea of Nur Hossain, the main accused in the sensational seven-murder case in Narayanganj, and extended his judicial custody for another 14 days.
The court also extended judicial custody of Hossain's two accomplices for the same period of time.
Hossain was produced before the chief judicial magistrate's court in Barasat, near Kolkata, on completion of his previous 14-day judicial custody.
This was the first time that he moved the court for bail since his arrest by an anti-terrorism squad of Kolkata police on June 14.
Indian police nabbed Hossain on the charge of entering the country without valid documents.
Police said Hossain and his two accomplices -- Zahidul Zaman and Salim -- were arrested at an Indraprastha flat building in Koikhali, some two kilometres away from Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Airport.
Nur Hossain stands accused in the gruesome abduction and killing of seven people, including Narayanganj city panel mayor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Sarkar.
The seven were abducted on April 27 in the city and six bodies were spotted floating in the Shitalakkhya river on April 30. The seventh surfaced the next day.
Hossain, councillor of ward-4 and a close aide to Narayanganj-4 Awami League lawmaker Shamim Osman, fled the country after the abductions, sources said.
Nazrul's father-in-law Shahidul Islam claimed that Hossain and some others had bribed some Rab-11 officials Tk 6 crore to have Nazrul killed.
Following the allegations, three officials of Rab-11 -- Lt Col Tareque Sayeed Mohammad, Maj Arif Hossain and Lt Commander MM Rana -- were fired. Later, they were arrested by law enforcers.
All of them have given depositions in court admitting their links with the incidents.