A close aide of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim was on Wednesday rearrested in Bangaldesh and sent to police custody for questioning over his possible terror links.
Abdul Rauf alias Daud Merchant, who was convicted of killing music baron Gulshan Kumar in 1997, was remanded into the police custody for three days by a court here.
Merchant, 44, was re arrested by police here after serving five years for illegally entering Bangladesh in May 2009.
Metropolitan Magistrate M Nuru Mia placed Merchant on a three-day remand, court officials said. The police had sought his seven-day remand. Police said he was needed to be interrogated to find out if he had any links to militants.
Merchant was earlier handed down life imprisonment for the murder of Gulshan Kumar. But he fled India while on a parole to visit his family in Mumbai. In May 2009, he was rearrested in Bangladesh on a tip-off. He was later convicted for intruding and illegally staying in Bangladesh and was released two days ago from Kashimpur prison after serving five years in jail.
