Man wanted in UK for twin murders held in Assam

Shakur,a Bangladeshi,allegedly murdered wife,daughter 7 yrs ago

This could have made the script for a thriller. Seven years ago,Abdul Shakur,a Bangladeshi,allegedly murdered his wife and daughter in London and vanished. The British police searched for him but he was nowhere to be found. Till Thursday night,that is. Now he is in jail.

Shakur fled to Bangladesh after the murders,then sneaked into India and got a new identity: Moibul Haque,an Indian citizen with a PAN card,an account each in SBI and Canara Bank,an OBC certificate from Behara gram panchayat and a certificate recommending his inclusion in electoral rolls. He stayed with his wife in Kolacharipar in Cachar and worked at a coal mine in adjoining Jaintiya Hills of Meghalaya.

He has confessed he is the same Abdul Shakur who is accused of the murders in London. He said he managed to fly back to Dhaka a few days after the murders in 2006,sneaked into India though Meghalaya the same year and finally ended up in Cachar, Cachar SP Diganta Bora said.

In Cachar,he met one Moinul Haque,who put Shakur up in his father-in-laws house at Khandigram and later married him to his daughter Rashida.

Rashida died during childbirth and soon after,Shakur moved to Behara,where he married one Ramizunnessa. The couple later shifted to nearby Kolacharipar and lived there till Shakurs luck ran out.

That is only half his story,however. Long before he became Moibul Haque,Shakur was just another villager in Shikpur in Bangladeshs Sylhet. In 2000,he went to London after marrying Jhuli Begum,daughter of Jamir Ali of the same village who worked at a Bengali restaurant in London, Bora said.

His father-in-law found him a small-time job but could not manage a British citizenship despite,Shakur has alleged,taking 8,000 pounds from him. He claimed Ali and his wife took the money and went off for Haj. He got angry and killed his wife,whom he also suspected of having an affair, Bora said. He also allegedly murdered his daughter. He then managed a passage to Bangladesh but when police began looking for him,he sneaked into India.

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We came to know about him when we got a mail from the British High Commission in July last year. An investigating team of the high commission visited Cachar looking for him a few months later. They gave us details and a photograph which helped us track him down, Bora said.