Overview
- Dhaka police named Faisal Karim Masud and Alamgir Sheikh as prime suspects and alleged they slipped through the Haluaghat border into Meghalaya, saying local contacts “Purti” and taxi driver “Sami” took them to Tura.
- Bangladesh authorities said they are pursuing arrests and extradition through formal and informal channels and cited informal reports that the two alleged facilitators were detained by Indian authorities.
- The BSF’s Meghalaya frontier and the state police rejected the claims as baseless, saying there is no evidence of any border crossing or arrests and that no such inputs have been received.
- Investigators in Bangladesh reported 11 arrests and six court confessions, said the killing was premeditated, recovered firearms and the getaway motorcycle, and indicated a charge sheet could be filed within seven to ten days, including references to financial leads.
- Hadi, shot in Dhaka on December 12 and dead in Singapore on December 18, has become a rallying figure as protests, arson at major media houses, and communal violence continue, with India voicing concern over attacks on minorities and Dhaka dismissing those remarks as inaccurate.