A leader of the student organisation of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s party, the Awami League, was arrested from a village near the India-Bangladesh border in Murshidabad. Acting on a tip-off, the Border Security Force (BSF) apprehended the young man named Abdul Kader on Saturday during a raid. He was later handed over to the police at Raghunathganj police station. The accused was presented in Jangipur sub-divisional court on Sunday. According to BSF sources, amid the unrest following the fall of the Hasina government in Bangladesh, many leaders and activists of the Awami League have fled the country. Some have tried to hide in villages near the border.
In response, the BSF has heightened surveillance in the border areas. During this time, they received information that Kader had been hiding for the past four days in a village near the Boyraghat border outpost in the Raghunathganj police station area. Subsequently, personnel from the 115 battalion of the BSF conducted a search operation in the village and apprehended him. The BSF handed the arrested student leader over to the police. According to police sources, during interrogation, Kader revealed that his home is in Narayanganj district in Bangladesh. He fled to India after the movement demanding quota reform in Bangladesh became violent. He left Bangladesh on 6 August, traveling by road, water, and even swimming part of the way before taking refuge in Chapainawabganj near Murshidabad