Assam man missing since 4 years returns from Bangladesh jail

GUWAHATI: A 40-year-old man, who had gone missing from Assam’s Darrang district in 2017 and was later traced to Bangladesh’s Feni jail, has finally returned to the country after four years. However, police are yet to ascertain how Mukul Hazarika had ended up in prison in the neighbouring country, where he was lodged since 2019.
On Monday, the Border Guard Bangladesh handed him over to the Border Security Force through Belonia check-post in Tripura along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Darrang superintendent of police Sushanta Biswa Sarma said, “Two years after he had gone missing, the Bangladesh authorities informed their Indian counterpart that Hazarika was languishing in Feni jail. We still do not know how he reached Bangladesh and got arrested there.”
The SP, who took the initiative to bring him back to the state, said the Assam government wrote a letter to the Bangladesh authorities in July this year, requesting them to initiate steps to return Hazarika.
“A police team of senior officials and his father, Phuleswar Hazarika, received him at Belonia on Monday. He is now in Tripura and will be brought to Guwahati on Tuesday,” the SP said.
Meanwhile, Phuleswar thanked the SP for taking up steps to bring his son back. “We were eagerly waiting for his return. These four years were very difficult to spend without him.”