"No Cross-Border Entry of Hadi Murder Accused", Say Meghalaya Police and BSF
Indian forces reject Bangladesh's fugitive suspects entry allegations.
Meghalaya Police and the Border Security Force (BSF) have firmly rejected allegations from Bangladeshi authorities and media that two prime suspects in the high-profile murder of political activist Sharif Osman Hadi—Faisal Karim Masud and Alamgir Sheikh—fled across the Haluaghat border into the northeastern Indian state on December 28, 2025.
The controversial claims, first publicized by Dhaka Metropolitan Police Additional Commissioner SN Md Nazrul Islam during a press conference and widely reported in outlets like The Daily Star, detailed that the suspects allegedly crossed into Meghalaya with assistance from local facilitators named Purti and Sami, who reportedly received them and transported them to Tura town, amid ongoing investigations into Hadi's fatal shooting on December 12.
Senior officials at Meghalaya Police headquarters dismissed the narrative as entirely fabricated, confirming no formal or informal requests from Bangladeshi counterparts have been received, while thorough intelligence checks, ground verifications, and operational sweeps across Garo Hills have found zero evidence of the suspects' presence, arrests, or any border incursion related to this case.
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BSF Meghalaya Frontier Inspector General OP Upadhayay echoed the denial, stating unequivocally that no detection or reporting of crossings from the Haluaghat sector occurred, labeling the assertions baseless and misleading, particularly as the force adheres rigorously to verified intelligence protocols in managing the sensitive international border prone to transborder challenges.
Despite the outright refutations, Indian authorities have intensified border surveillance and inter-agency coordination as a standard precautionary response to potential criminal exploitation of routes, while reaffirming commitment to bilateral cooperation exclusively through established formal channels; this incident follows a pattern of recent unsubstantiated Bangladeshi media reports, including one refuted just weeks prior involving alleged BSF actions against infiltrators.
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