RAB arrest Ramna bomb attack convict after two decades

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a man condemned to death over the bomb attack on Chhayanaut's Pahela Baishakh programme at Ramna Batamul in Dhaka two decades ago, reports bdnews24.com.
Mufti Shafiqur Rahman was also sentenced to life in prison for the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally.
The RAB informed the media about his arrest in a message on Bangla New Year on Thursday.
He was arrested from Kishoreganj's Bhairab, the RAB said. No further details were given.
Ten people were killed after a bomb had exploded during leading cultural troupe Chhayanaut's programme at the capital's Ramna Batamul in the morning of April 14, 2001.
According to the case dossier, Islamist militants targeted the Pahela Baishakh event as they considered it 'anti-Islamic'.
Mufti Abdul Hannan, a top leader of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (HuJI), Shafiqur and 12 other militants were accused in the murder case filed over the bomb attack.
A Dhaka court on June 23, 2014 sentenced to death Hannan, Shafiqur and six other accused and gave life imprisonment to six others in the case.
Besides Hannan and Shafiqur, Maulana Akbar Hossain, Arif Hasan Sumon, Maulana Tajuddin, Hafiz Jahangir Alam Badr, Maulana Abu Bakr alias Hafiz Selim Hawladar, and Maulana Abdul Hai were given the capital punishment.
Shahadatullah Jewel, Maulana Sabbir, Shaokat Hossain alias Sheikh Farid, Maulana Abdur Rauf, Maulana Abu Taher and Maulana Yahia were sentenced to life.