: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) expressed its displeasure before a city court on Friday over the Bidhannagar police’s decision to take one of the prime accused in the Bardhaman blast case into custody without informing it.
Sajid, along with seven other accused arrested by the NIA, was in judicial custody and was to be produced in court on Friday.
At the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s (CJM) Court, NIA counsel Shyamal Ghosh said that the Bidhannagar police shifted Sajid from the Presidency Correctional Home on Thursday and produced him before the CJM Barasat court after which they took him into custody.
The NIA alleged in the court of CJM Md Mumtaz Khan that even though Sajid was in judicial custody on its prayer, the Bidhannagar police did not inform it before taking him into custody.
The judge, however, told Mr. Ghosh that the Bidhannagar police had produced a requisition memo informing him about taking Sajid into custody in relation to a pending case.
The NIA produced Sajid and two other accused in the Bardhaman blast case before the court on December 2 and sought their judicial remand saying that it does not need them in custody for interrogation at present.
The NIA had declared a reward of Rs. 10 lakh for information leading to Sajid’s arrest. It had also said that he was a “suspected national of Bangladesh.”
Sajid was staying near the Lalgola Madrasa in Murshidabad district of West Bengal.
He was arrested by the Anti-Terrorism Squad of the Bidhannagar police on November 7.
