New Delhi, February 12 The CBI arrested a wanted criminal on Thursday, who was accused in one of the post-election violence cases in West Bengal and had been on the run since 2021, officials said.
The alleged absconder, Nazir Hossen, was arrested from his father-in-law's residence in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, they said.
This is one of the cases registered by the CBI at the instruction of the Calcutta High Court.
Following the announcement of the results of the West Bengal Assembly on May 2, 2021, major violence erupted in different parts of the state, leading to the registration of several murder, rape, and attempted rape cases.
Several petitions were filed in the high court seeking a CBI investigation, after which the cases were handed over to the Central investigating agency.
"It was alleged that Nazir Hossen, in criminal conspiracy with other accused, surrounded the deceased Hasnur Zaman on the morning of May 2, 2021, armed with firearms, hand grenades, and iron rods, and killed him by throwing grenades due to political rivalry and a dispute over the construction of a club house on mosque land," the CBI spokesperson said in a statement.
Hossen was charged along with 12 other accused.
The case is currently being tried in the Barasat court in West Bengal.
"Nazir Hossen has been evading arrest since the inception of the case in 2021. He has been arrested by the CBI based on human intelligence and technical inputs," the spokesperson said.
He was produced before the court in Barasat on Thursday and remanded in judicial custody, she said.
