NIA unhappy with Bidhannagar Police

NIA today expressed its displeasure before a city court at the Bidhannagar Police of West Bengal which took custody of one of the accused in the Burdwan blast case, who was in judicial remand, without informing it.
NIA lawyer Shyamal Ghosh told the court of CJM Bankshall Court Md Mumtaz Khan that the Bidhannagar Police took Sajid, alias Sk Rahmatulla, from Presidency Correctional Home yesterday and took him in its custody after producing him before the CJM Barasat Court.
Sajid, along with seven other accused arrested by NIA, was in judicial remand and was to be produced before the CJM Bankshall Court today.

Bangladeshi national Sajid was detained by the Bidhannagar Police on December 8 and was handed over to NIA which had declared a Rs 10 lakh award on him.
Sajid had been produced before the court on December 2 along with two others by NIA, which had them in its custody, saying that it did not need their custodial interrogation any more at present and had sought their judicial remand. This court had sent them to judicial remand till today.
While NIA prayed for extension of judicial remand of the seven accused, it told the court that though Sajid was in judicial remand on its prayer after having been in its custody, it had not been informed by the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate about his arrest.

Judge Khan, however, told the NIA counsel that a requisition memo was produced before him by Bidhannagar Police today about taking Sajid's custody in connection with a case pending before it.
The court remanded all seven accused -- Khalid, Hakim, Rajiya, Hashem Mollah, Jia Ul Haq, Alima and Amjad Sheikh, who were produced before it today, to judicial custody till December 20.