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Bishwajit murder: Fugitive convict arrested in Faridpur
  • Staff Correspondent
  • 2021-08-11 02:55:26

Bangladesh Chhatra League activists beating up tailor Bishwajit Das during a blockade of the BNP-led alliance in Old 

He will be handed over to the court on Wednesday

One of the fugitive convicts given a life term sentence in the 2012 Bishwajit Das murder case has been arrested from Faridpur’s Sadarpur upazila.

Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Imran Hossain from Char Bishnupur area of the upazila around 10:30pm on Tuesday, confirmed Sadarpur police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Subrata Goldar.

He will be handed over to the court on Wednesday, said the OC.

On December 9, 2012, Bishwajit Das was hacked to death near Bahadur Shah Park in Dhaka.

The Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal 4 gave its verdict in the Bishwajit murder case on December 18, 2013. Of the 21 accused, eight were sentenced to death and 13 to life imprisonment.

The convicts sentenced to death were Rafiqul Islam, Mahfuzur Rahman, Rasheduzzaman, Imdadul Haque, Qayyum Mia, Saiful Islam, Rajan Talukder (fugitive) and Noor Alam (fugitive).

HM Kibria, Golam Mostafa, Khandaker Yunus Ali, Monirul Haque, Tariq Bin Johar, Alauddin, Obaidul Quader, Imran Hossain, Azizur Rahman, Al Amin Sheikh, Rafiqul Islam (2), Kamrul Hasan and Mosharraf Hossain were sentenced to life imprisonment.

All of them are fugitives except HM Kibria and Golam Mostafa.

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