Bangladeshi-born British citizen Mohiuddin Bablu, accused of fleeing the UK in 1997 after committing several murders and imprisoned in Bangladesh for the last 13 years in an arms case, was handed over to concerned British authorities on Monday.
Officials of the British police and the British High Commission in Dhaka were handed over the 40-year-old Bablu by the Dhaka Central Jail authorities at about 2:30pm, after which he was driven straight to Shah Jalal Airport to catch a flight to London.
The superintendent of Dhaka Central Jail, Partha Gopal Banik, told New Age that they had handed over Bablu to British detectives after completion of all the necessary formalities.
‘Bablu was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment in an arms case but had to stay in the jail for 13 years as the British authority requested the government not to release him, saying that he was accused of murders in London,’ said Partha Gopal.
He said that British intelligence agents had received Bablu from the jail authority and taken him to the airport under tight security.
Mohiuddin Bablu fled Britain in 1997 after killing a man in London, said the police.
Bablu, after returning to Bangladesh, was arrested by the police for possessing illegal arms and sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment, said sources in Dhaka Central jail.
He was handed over to the British authority under the Extradition Act 1974, said Partha Gopal.
Joint secretary Kamal Uddin Ahmed of the home affairs ministry told reporters that Bangladesh’s high commission in London would provide legal support to Bablu as the accused is also a Bangladeshi citizen.
He said that the High Court had also asked the government to hand over Bablu to the British authority as he was accused of several murders.
-With New Age input
