Convict arrested after 10 years

Staff Reporter :
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-2 arrested a fugitive convict Biswajit Das in murder case after 10 years.
Mosharraf Hosen alias Abdullah, 34, was arrested from Dhaka’s Gulshan area on Sunday night.
ASP Md Fazlul Haque, Senior Assistant Director (media) of RAB-2, confirmed the matter on Monday morning.
On December 9, 2012, Bishwajit Das, a tailor by profession of old town, was hacked to death near Bahadur Shah Park in Dhaka, by miscreants during a blockade programme, enforced by BNP led aliance.
On December 18, 2013, Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 announced the verdict in the murder case. The court sentenced eight accused to death and 13 others including Abdullah to life imprisonment. The convicts later appealed against the verdict.
Later, on August 6, 2017, the High Court upheld the death penalty of two of the eight convicts sentenced to death by the lower court, commuted the death sentence of four to life imprisonment and acquitted two others.
Abdullah had been on the run since his conviction in the murder case.