Members of Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU), a specialized unit of Bangladesh Police, arrested a fugitive convict from Dendabar at Ashulia in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital on Wednesday night. The arrestee was Lutfur  Rahman, 55, son of Abdul Fakir of Panchbibi of Joypurhat district. Based on information, a team of ATU conducted a drive in the area around 8 pm and arrested him. He remained absconding for the past 16 years, said a press release of ATU issued on Thursday. 59-year-old convicted prisoner of Dinajpur jail dies in hospital According to the release, Lutfur along with his associates attacked Majibor Rahman at his house in Sadar upazila of Joypurhat district and stabbed him to death on December 17, 2007. They also looted valuables including gold ornaments and cash from the house. A Razzaque, son of Majibor, was also injured in the attack. 8th grader held hostage, raped; 3 fugitive convicts held in Dhaka’s Bhatara Later, a case was filed in this connection with Sadar Police Station against three people including Lutfur. N’ganj murder: HC upholds death of 2 convicts, 11 acquitted On June 20, 2023, Joypurhat Additional District and Sessions Judge sentenced them to with fine of Tk 10,000 each.

   A 51-year-old convict died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) Friday morning, police said. Md Iqbal, an inmate of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj, was rushed to the emergency department of the DMCH after he fell sick in the prison early morning. Details about the convict could not immediately be known, Md Bachhu Miah, in-charge of DMCH Police Outpost, said. "Prison guard Md Shakil Khan brought him to the hospital."   Iqbal was declared dead around 9am, he added. "The body has been kept at the hospital morgue for autopsy and will be handed over to Iqbal's family after the completion of legal procedures," Bachhu said.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested a fugitive death row convict in several murder cases, including four murders of Kurigram, from Kanchpur area of Narayanganj. The arrestee is hired terrorist Palash Gazi alias Jalal Gazi alias Daat Bhanga Palash. He used to work as a hired terrorist in various crimes including robbery, drug peddling, and theft since 2010. Tipped off, Rab members conducted a drive at Kanchpur area on Monday night and arrested Palash Gazi, said Commander Khandaker Al Moin, director legal and media wing of the Rab headquarters at its Karwan Bazar media center on Tuesday. Read more: 2 fugitive convicts held in Dhaka He is a death row convict in the case of killing four members of the same family in Kurigram. Rab said that the murder was carried out due to a land dispute between two brothers. In November 2013, Mumtaz Uddin made a contract with Palash Gazi to kill his younger brother Sultan Ahmed in Bhurungamari area of Kurigram following a land dispute. Under the leadership of Palash, Nazrul alias Manju, Amir, Zakir, Hasmat and Mumtaz planned to kill Sultan on January 13, 2014. On the following day, Palash's other associates, wearing masks with local weapons, attacked Sultan’s house. They hacked Sultan, his wife Hazera Begum, their grandchildren Rumana and Anika to death, said the Rab commander. Sultan's son Hafizur Rahman filed a murder case at Bhurungamari police station. Read more: Crimes against humanity: Fugitive death row convict held in Savar Later, police arrested two people in another murder case in Bhurungamari area. At one stage of interrogation, they admitted the involvement in the four murders and revealed the names of their associates. Investigating officer of the case submitted a chargesheet against seven people including Mumtaz Uddin, Palash Gazi in the court. On February 16 last year, the court sentenced six accused, including the accused killer Mumtaz Uddin, the fugitive Palash Gazi, and acquitted another. The Rab officer also said Palash Gazi and his associates killed a microbus driver Nurul Haque and left the body in a pond in Mirzapur area of Sherpur in Bogra to steal the microbus in July 2015. In this case, the court sentenced a total of nine accused, including the Palash Gazi, to life imprisonment last November. Among the eight other convicts, Nazrul Islam Manju and Amir Hamza were also convicted over the brutal murder of four members of the same family in Bhurungamari area of Kurigram, said the officer.

A 45-year-old man who was serving jail terms in a case filed over the attack on the motorcade of then Bangladesh opposition leader and current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira in 2002, died at a hospital early on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Zabid Raihan Lucky, former president of Jubo Dal's Satkhira Kalaroa municipality unit and son of Kawsar Ali Sardar of Kalaroa upazila. Zabid had been suffering from different ailments, including heart and kidney diseases. Recently, he was admitted to Khulna Medical College and Hospital after he fell sick in Satkhira jail. Meanwhile, Zabid was produced in the Satkhira court from Khulna to record his statement in an explosives case on August 14. From there, he was taken to Satkhira Medical College and Hospital, where he breathed his last around 1.15am. Read: Farmers’ suicide ‘for irrigation water’: Human chain demands justice He will be buried at his family graveyard, following a namaz-e-janaza in Tulshidanga village after Asr prayer later in the day. Zabid was sentenced to 10 years and four years in jail after being convicted of two offences in the case.  

Police on Friday arrested a fugitive convict  who had been on the run since his conviction in the 2012 Biswajit Das murder case. Alauddin, 35, who was sentenced to life in jail in the case in 2013, was nabbed from his parents-in-law’s house in the Mokamtola of Shibganj upazila in Bogura. Read: Fugitive convicted for attempt to assassinate Hasina in 1994 lands in Pabna jail Acting on a tip-off, a team conducted a raid in the area and arrested Alauddin in the short hours of Friday, said Bogura District Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ali Haider Chowdhury. On December 9, 2012, tailoring shop employee Biswajit was chopped to death by some BCL activists near Bahadur Shah Park in Old Dhaka during the BNP-led alliance's countrywide road blockade programme. On December 18, 2013, a tribunal sentenced eight BCL activists to death and 13 others, including Alauddin, to life imprisonment in the Biswajit killing case. On August 6, 2017, the High Court upheld the death sentences of Rafiqul Islam Shakil and Rajon Talukder and commuted the capital punishment of four other convicts — Mahfuzur Rahman Nahid, Emdadul Haque Emdad, GM Rasheduzzaman Shawon and Mir Nurul Alam Liman — to life term.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has claimed to have arrested a fugitive death row convict in the 2001 Ramna Batamul carnage case. The arrestee has been identified as Mufti Shafiqur Rahman alias Abdul Karim alias Shafiqul Islam, 61. He was arrested during a drive conducted by Rab-2 members in Bhairab upazila of Kishoreganj on Thursday, said Imran Khan ASP (media) at Rab headquarters. "During primary interrogation, the arrestee has admitted to his involvement in the attack," he said. READ: New bench to hear death references for convicts in Ramna Batamul bombing case Mufti Shafiqur told interrogators that he came in contact with Mufti Hannan, then head of banned Islamist organisation Harkat-ul-Jihad, when he went to study at Yusuf Bin Nuri Madrasah in Karachi in 1987. While on a subsequent trip to Afghanistan from Pakistan, he became involved with the militant group. Returning to Bangladesh from Afghanistan, he formed the militant organisation, 'Harkat-ul-Jihad (B)'. From 1990 to 1993, he served as the publicity secretary of the militant group. From 1993 to 1996, he was the Amir of the group. From 1997 to 2003, he was a member of Harkat-ul-Jihad's Sura. He was involved in 2001 Ramna Batamul bombing on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh, the August 21 granade attack in 2004, and killing of five people, including former Finance Minister Shah AMS Kibria, in Habiganj on January 27, 2005. From 2001 to 2008, after the attack on Ramna Batamul, he remained secretly associated with the organisation. After that, he stayed at a madrasa in Narsingdi from 2008 and then went into hiding. While in Narsingdi he was using the pseudonym Abdul Karim and used to work as an Imam at a local mosque for a salary of Tk 5,000. He used to meet his family members at different places. "Legal action against the arrestee is underway," said the Rab ASP.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested an absconding convict from the capital who paid off a cousin to serve the life sentence he received for killing a man in 2010. The arrestee was identified as Sohag alias Boro Sohag, 34, who was sentenced to life imprisonment on December 28, 2017. According to a media release of Rab HQ, a team of Rab-10, tipped off, made the arrest conducting a drive Saturday night in the Sir Salimullah Medical College and Hospital area, where he had gone to get his Covid-19 vaccination done ahead of fleeing to the UAE with fake/false identity papers he had already obtained for the purpose.  Read:Two arrested with 3 gecko lizards in Jashore Sohag shot a man named Humayun Kabir alias Titu in the Kodomtoli area of the city in November 2010 and got arrested in December in the same year. Four people including Shohag were made accused in the murder case. He secured bail in 2014, and soon after he jumped bail and has evaded law enforcement ever since. Eventually a Dhaka court sentenced him to life imprisonment in absentia. Sohag  has now confessed that he allured his 'drug addict' cousin Md Hossain, 35, to assume his identity and surrender before the court saying he would provide Tk 5,000 every month for serving his sentence. He also assured his cousin Hossain to get him out of the jail within 2/3 months. And the court ordered to send Hossain to jail, turning down the bail plea in 2018. However, the court came to know about the forgery in 2021 following the report of a journalist about a 'Fake Sohag' in jail which was confirmed in a police report. The court later issued a warrant against Sohag, the release added.

Police have arrested a man who had been on the run since he was given a 10-year jail term for an attack on the motorcade of then-opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira district. Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s intelligence wing held absconding Arifur Rahman Ranju from the city’s Hazaribagh area on Friday. Ranju, a former Chhatra Dal leader, confessed to leading a group of 50 people in carrying out the attack on Aug. 30 in 2002 at Kalaroa in Satkhira district. Sheikh Hasina was returning to Dhaka after attending a meeting in Kalaroa.   Also read: Sheikh Hasina's convoy attack: Ex-BNP MP, 2 others get 10-yr imprisonment A court in Khulna held trial of the 50 attackers, including Ranju, in a case over attempt on the life of Sheikh Hasina, the current prime minister. Detective Branch (DB) Additional Commissioner AKM Hafiz Akhter told reporters at DMP's media center on Saturday that Ranju started student politics in 1993 at Kalaroa College. He used to lead college Chattrd Dal. After the investigation charge sheets were issued against 50 people. On February 3, the court sentenced Ranju to 10 years in jail.  Ranju had been on the run ever since, he said. Also read: Verdict in PM’s convoy attack case to be delivered Thursday The additional commissioner informed that Ranju would be taken to court at Satkhira Saturday to complete further legal procedures.  

After nearly 20 years on the run, a man sentenced to life imprisonment in a murder case, was arrested from Khilmeher village of Kachua upazila on Tuesday.