NIA ‘informant’ returns home

His family had lodged a protest with the local administration over Alam going missing from NIA detention.

NIA informant Mehre Alam,who was reported to have escaped from the agencys custody in Muzaffarpur,reached his Darbhanga home late Thursday night. But Alams family in Sidhauli village neither confirmed nor denied news of his return.

Alam,who had been assisting the NIA with information on one of Patna serial blast accused,Hyder Ali,had reportedly slipped away from a Muzaffarpur hotel after having learnt that the NIA wanted to take him to Delhi for further questioning. The NIA had tracked Alam after the Bodhgaya blasts and received information from him.

Sources said Alam moved around in UP,where he stayed at his acquaintances homes,before finally deciding to return to Sidhauli. His family had lodged a protest with the local administration over Alam going missing from NIA detention.

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Darbhanga and Muzaffarpur police confirmed Alams return but said there was no instruction from the NIA to bring him back for questioning.

It is NIA that has been questioning him and there is no question of local police meeting Alam after his return. Our duty is only to assist NIA team when it visits here, Darbhanga Range DIG Anwar Hussain said.

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