Benapole port police station in Jashore on Tuesday made an arrest of a fellow member of police on charge of transferring important information to India.
The detained police constable, Deb Prasad Saha, is the son of certain Surendra Nath Saha of Terkhada upazila in Khulna.
The officer in charge (OC) of port police station Mamun Khan filed a case of sedition against Deb Prasad.
Police produced Deb Prasad before the court of Jashore senior judicial magistrate and sought 10 days of remand on Tuesday Morning. Judge Saifuddin Hossain sent him to prison announcing the hearing date for remand on Thursday.
Benapole police station OC, Mamun Khan said a sedition case was filed against Deb Prasad Saha on charges of transferring important information of Bangladesh to India. He was arrested on Tuesday and was handed over to the court. He will be questioned once the court places him on remand. The case is under investigation.
According to the case statement, Deb Prasad Saha is a constable working for Armed Police Battalion-1 of Uttara in Dhaka. He had worked as an immigration officer at Benapole port from 27 December 2014 to 17 August 2018.
The statement reveals the officer would cross the border often. He met Abu Hanjala Rana, an office assistant and Shahnewaz Shahin, a soldier, of Bangladesh Army at the port. Those two army staff used to transfer Bangladesh’s confidential information to India via two certain Indian nationals, S Chakrabarty and Pintu.
Deb Prasad Saha, however, handed over a pen drive containing important information to India at the end of 2018. He again brought another pen drive from Hanjala and handed over that to S Chakrabarty and Pintu in India after two weeks.
Soldier Shahnewaz Shahin was arrested in a drive conducted by DGFI (Directorate General of Forces Intelligence) and RAB (Rapid Action Battalion) on 25 October from a hotel in Kamalapur area of Dhaka. The law enforcement members recovered a pen drive filled with confidential information from Shahin.
The matter was later investigated by a committee constituted by the police headquarters. The inquiry revealed the transfer of information from Bangladesh to India through analysing the video CD of the conversation with one Indian Superintendent of Police Abdullah Arif and the arrestees’ mobile phone call list.
