Fugitive war criminal arrested in Gazipur

GAZIPUR, June 02, (BSS): Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a warranted fugitive war criminal from Sreepur upazila of the district on Wednesday.

The arrested was identified as Md Shahar Ali, 76, son of late Javed Ali, resident of Phulpur upazila of Mymensingh district.

RAB-2 senior assistant director (media) Md Fazlul Haque informed this information in a press release this morning that he was arrested following a secret operation at Sreepur upazila in Gazipur on Wednesday.

RAB said that during the Great Liberation War of 1971, Md. Shabar Ali and other Razakars were directly involved in various crimes against humanity including kidnapping, rape, brutal torture, arson, brutal murders.