Silchar, May 24: A British citizen of Bangladeshi origin, arrested from Kathigorah block in Cachar district on Wednesday, was today sent to judicial custody for 14 days.

Cachar police arrested Abdul Sukkur, 34, based on information that he had falsely obtained a PAN card and State Bank of India debit card in an attempt to acquire Indian citizenship. Sukkur was presented at a local court of chief judicial magistrate Ramen Barua this afternoon who sent him to judicial custody.

The police said the state’s home department had intimated the British embassy in New Delhi that Sukkur, who was living as a fugitive in Cachar since 2006 after allegedly “killing” his wife at Bricks Lane in London, has been charged with violation of Article 14 of the Foreigners’ Act. He migrated to England in 2000 following his marriage to Juli Begum, 30, a British woman. But he fled to Bangladesh in January 2006, three day after murdering his wife. The police here said Sukkur is originally a resident of Golpganj in Sylhet district of Bangladesh.

Sukkur confessed that he had strangulated Juli to death after a tiff. He left behind their daughters Ahana Khanam, 4, and two-year-old Anika who were subsequently looked after by Juli’s relatives.

When police in Sylhet, prodded by their British counterparts, started looking for him, Sukkur escaped to Cachar. He obtained necessary papers like a residence certificate issued by the Kathigorah block panchayat, a PAN card and opened an account with SBI in the name of Maibul Haque.