[Assam] ISI-friendly police officer suspended

[Pradip Kumar Datta]

        ISI-friendly police officer suspended 
    A STAFF REPORTER                Hussain: Facing flak  Guwahati, March 2: A police officer of sub-inspector rank was put under suspension today for allowing two undertrial ISI agents to make calls to Bangladesh from a local telephone booth after being produced in a court yesterday. For Manik Ali, it was not new. He likes helping ISI agents. But the last time, his suspension order was vacated. 
  Forest minister Rockybul Hussain, replying on behalf of the chief minister Tarun Gogoi, who also holds the home portfolio, told the Assembly that apart from departmental action initiated against him, high-level inquiries were also ordered to probe the security lapse. 
  An additional director-general of police and an additional deputy commissioner have been asked to get to the bottom of the truth. They have been asked to submit their reports to the government as soon as possible, Hussain said.
  On February 21, an additional sessions judge had allowed the undertrial detainees to make calls to their houses in the presence of the jail authorities. 
  The government came out with a reply after leader of the Opposition Brindaban Goswami said the duo was spotted making calls from a public call office with no police personnel around. 
  The minister said the government had taken a very serious note of the matter. 
  The duo has been identified as Billal Mian and Akram Ali. They were part of five suspected ISI agents who were arrested by city police in 1999.
  They are alleged to have made calls to two numbers — (008801712186106) and a mobile number (09232514114) which have been traced to Bangladesh. 
  City senior superintendent of police S.N. Singh said Manik Ali, who was in charge of the escort party, was earlier suspended after Nurul Amin, a suspected ISI sleuth, escaped from Guwahati Medical College Hospital where he was undergoing treatment in police custody. 
  Ali’s suspension was later vacated after a departmental inquiry. 
  Amin was convicted by a Delhi court for his alleged involvement in the abduction of four foreign nationals from Connaught Place in September 1994 in a bid to secure the release of 10 hardcore militants. A senior police official said it was too much of a coincidence that Manik Ali was involved in both the cases. 
  “We are looking into these aspects in our inquiry,” the officer said.

 
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