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Denying any Bangladeshi involvement in the Hyderabad twin blasts that killed 44 people on August 25, Dhaka’s Home Secretary Mohammed Abdul Karim has said that media reports about the arrest of a Bangladeshi national (Sharifuddin alias Abu Hamza) are “unfounded” and that the Foreign Ministry “will lodge its protest through diplomatic channel.”
“We will verify the reports of different international and Indian media,” Karim was quoted as having told New Age newspaper in Dhaka. The newspaper also quoted a “high official of Dhaka Metropolitan Police” as having denied that any such arrest was made by the Bangladesh police and calling the reports “baseless.”
Karim’s statement to the newspaper has been sent by the Indian High Commission in Dhaka to New Delhi which has asked the CBI to approach Interpol for information on Humza’s whereabouts citing his alleged involvement in the Haren Pandya murder case.
Government sources told The Indian Express that New Delhi has not instructed the High Commission to take up the issue with Dhaka even though Home Secretary Madhukar Gupta went on record saying the government was “trying to verify the report.” While the Hyderabad police and security agencies are still to get any definite clues to the twin blasts, the Andhra Pradesh police has sent one team to West Bengal and another to Maharashtra to check out the trail of the purchase of explosives on the basis of the batch number found in an unexploded device at Dilsukhanagar.
