It is very much usual that if someone is badly hurt after a road accident he/she seeks help from people around to go to a nearby hospital to save his life but surprisingly this did not happen to the case of the victims of the private car that collided with a Dhaka-bound train in the capital’s Malibagh rail crossing Friday evening.
Locals pulled three severely injured passengers out of the twisted and mangled private car but they in the blink of an eye vanished into the thin air.
Police later found that the trio fled as they are close aides of Nur Hussain – the prime accused of seven murders in Narayanganj. Nur is now in a Kolkata jail.
The passengers of the car were carrying a licensed pistol of Nur. It was one of the two fire arms of Nur which had been traceless for quite a long time.
Police had earlier seized his nine firearms whose licenses have already been canceled by the administration of Narayanganj following the gruesome murder.
Nur Hossain’s brother-in-law was also reportedly traveling by the car.
According to police and witnesses, the flagman at the Malibagh railroad crossing pulled down the boom barrier in the afternoon when Dhaka-bound train Chattala Express from Chittagong was passing the area.
But the Toyota Allion defying the signal tried to manoeuvre through the wrong lane in a hurry but unfortunately its engine broke down leaving the car stranded on the track.
Locals said some witnesses to the accident wanted to take them hospital but they denied saying they would go alone. After the incident police recovered a foreign 9mm pistol and 12 bullets of two firearms from the car. There were also some new clothes, a national voter ID card and some papers in the car.
“As the victims fled the scene it made us curious. We started digging into the matter as to why the injured passengers fled the spot. Besides, there was no document of the pistol in the car,” said Abdul Mojid, officer-in-charge of the Dhaka Railway Police Station.
GRP police collected data of licensed fire arms of all districts and the serial number of the recovered fire arm matched with the list provided by Narayanganj police. It was lenienced under Nur Hossain’s name. Licenses of all of his 11 arms had been canceled.
“Four of the recovered bullets were of the pistol and other eight bullets were of a 1.22-bore rifle which also belongs to Nur Hossain. Investigators of the seven murder incident were looking for those two fire arms,” said the OC.
Police also conducted raids at different hospitals in the capital to nab the injured passengers.
“In the late hours of the night we found a 40-year-old injured passenger MA Rahman alias Ansar Ali got admitted into the Apollo Hospital. We went there but his condition was critical. Doctors shifted him to the ICU,” he said.
A team of Narayanganj Detective Branch of police also went to the hospital. They were waiting for the patient’s recovery. Asked, the OC said they were yet to know the relation between Nur Hossain and Ansar Ali. “But we are sure he is a close aide of Nur.”
A police source said he is one of the owners of Three Angels Shipping Limited.
Police on Friday night also came to know that another passenger got admitted into the Square Hospital in the capital’s Panthapath.
“He is Nur-e-Alam Khan, son of late Muslim Uddin Khan. He is the brother-in-law of Nur Hossain. He left the hospital just 10 minutes before we reached there. He told the doctor that he would take admission into another hospital where a doctor is his relative,” the OC said.
Asked, who owns the car, Abdul Mojid said Alam is the owner of the car. The car was purchased from Gulshan’s Auto Museum. Alam is yet to register that. But a token was found in the car.
“Primarily we have come to know that he is a businessman. Detectives are trying to find out his details,” he said adding they have got a NID card of Alam in the car.
“We suspected that Alam and other people were trying to go to India to meet Nur Hossain in Kolkata,” he said. Asked why he had such a suspicion he said police found new Panjabi, shirts and some other things packed in the car. Besides, Nur Hossain is going to be placed before a Kolkata court today,” he said.
Contacted, Narayanganj Police’s Additional Superintendent Md Sajjadur Rahman said, Alam is the younger brother of Nur Hossain’s latest wife. Nur, who has several wives, used to live with this woman.
He said that neither Nur-e-Alam or his sister (Nur’s wife) is accused in the seven-murder case.
“But we have been keeping them under surveillance. We don’t know exactly when Alam left Narayanganj. He actually lived at New Eskaton in the capital and went to Narayanganj some days back,” he said adding they were trying to find out why and how Nur’s arms went to Alam’s possession. Detectives were also trying to find out if there were more passengers except the injured three.
“So far we have ascertained identities of two passengers and another unidentified has fled the scene.”
However, a source in Narayanganj police said Nur-e-Alam is the general secretary of Sonargaon thana unit of Chhatra League. His wife was with him in the car during the accident.
A fugitive, Nur Hossain stands accused of the gruesome abduction and killing of seven people including Narayanganj panel mayor Nazrul Islam and an advocate Chandan Sarker.
The seven were abducted on April 27 in the city and six of their bodies were found floating in the Shitalakkhya River on April 30 and the other ones the next day.
