Death row convict held in N'ganj

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has claimed to have nabbed a fugitive death row convict in the 2001 Ramna Batamul carnage case, reports UNB.

Mufti Abdul Hye (57), former amir and founder of Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami Bangladesh (HuJI-B), was apprehended during a drive in the Fatulla area of Narayanganj on Wednesday, RAB said on Thursday.

He was also a death row convict in a case filed over a murder attempt on Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Kotalipara in Gopalganj in 2000, according to the elite force.

Tipped off, a team of RAB-2 conducted the drive in the Fatulla area, said assistant SP (media wing) at RAB headquarters Imran Khan. "Abdul was wanted in as many as 13 criminal cases."

He was also sentenced to life in jail in the August 21 grenade attack case, and wanted in two separate cases of murder, including that of former Finance Minister SM Kibria.