Staff Correspondent
Four fugitive convicts in the Awami League leader, Ahsanullah Master, murder case were arrested in Kolkata of West Bengal state, a senior official of CID said in Dhaka.
A special team of Kolkata CID arrested the four fugitives — Nazrul Islam Dipu alias Nurul Islam Dipu, Shahadat Hossain, Obaidul Islam Tipu and Zakir Hossain Manju alias Syed Ahmed Manju, from a house near the Garia bus-terminal in Kolkata, upon tips of the CID officials in Dhaka.
Of them, Dipu and Manju were awarded death sentence while the two others given life term imprisonment in the trial. They were living in Kolkata for the last four years.
The Kolkata police filed a case against them for illegal trespass into India as they failed to show valid documents in support of their staying in Kolkata.
The four convicts were placed on police remand on Monday and they were being interrogated by the Kolkata CID.
Ahsanullah Master, a labour leader and an AL lawmaker, was shot dead at a meeting of the Awami Sechchhasebak League at Noagaon MA Majid High School ground, near to his residence, in Tongi of Gazipur. A schoolboy, Omar Faruk Ratan, was also killed in the gun attack.
After investigation, ASP Khalequzzaman of CID, submitted a charge-sheet to the court against 30 people.
The trial court on April 16, 2005 awarded death sentence to 22 people, life term to seven others and acquitted one.
Twelve of the convicts including Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal central leader Nurul Islam Sarker, are now in the jail custody while the rest are on the run.
Courtesy: newagebd.com
