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Another killer of Ahsanullah Master arrested

Wednesday, 8 October 2014


Police have arrested a fugitive condemned to death for the murder of former Gazipur MP and Awami League leader Ahsanullah Master in Noakhali's Sonaimurhi Upazila. Akram Hossain Bhulu, 45, son of Goni Mia of Tongi’s Gopalpur, was nabbed from the residence of his in-laws in Sonaimurhi Upazila’s Kotbaria village around 10pm on Tuesday. He was handed over to Gazipur’s Tongi Police Station. Tongi Police Station OC Qazi Ismail Hossain said Akram was being brought to Tongi with the assistance from Sonaimurhi police. Ahsanullah Master, a popular politician of Tongi, was gunned down on May 7, 2004, while addressing a Swechchhasebak League conference at the Noagaon MA Majid Mia High School ground, near his residence. His younger brother Matiur Rahman had lodged the murder case with Tongi police, according to bdnews24.com.