Police of Dawki police station in Meghalaya state have arrested four leaders of Sylhet Awami League and Jubo League from Kolkata, India, for assaulting a truck driver, not on charges of rape.
Police in the northeastern Indian state of Meghalaya said that four Bangladeshis who were absconding in a criminal case have been arrested from Kolkata. All of them are involved in the politics of the Awami League and its affiliates in Bangladesh.
However, the news that there are rape allegations against them in Meghalaya is not correct, Meghalaya Police Director General Idashisha Nongrang told BBC Bangla.
Local sources in Meghalaya said that the four arrested were accused of a scuffle with truck drivers at the Dawki border in October.
They are Sylhet District Awami League General Secretary and former District Council Chairman Nasir Uddin Khan, Sylhet Metropolitan Jubo League President Alam Khan (Mukti), Vice President Abdul Latif (Ripon) and member Ilias Hossain (Jewel).
The Meghalaya Police arrested the four on Sunday (December 8) with the help of Bidhannagar Police.
The Bidhannagar Police said that they had fled Bangladesh after August 5 and were living in Meghalaya, India, after learning from the Meghalaya Police.
The four accused in a case filed by Dawki Police Station on the India-Bangladesh border took shelter in a residence in Newtown area near Kolkata. They were arrested from there on Sunday and brought to Shillong, according to the Meghalaya Police.
Meghalaya Police Director General Ms. Nongrang said that there was a case filed by Dawki Police Station against the four arrested Bangladeshis. There is no rape charge against them. The Dawki Police Station had charges against them under four sections of the Indian Penal Code and Section 14 of the Foreigners Act. He was arrested and brought from Kolkata in that case.