Playing cat and mouse

Handcuffed, the convicted criminal fled right from the courtroom.  

He has been running from the law since 2014. Yesterday he got away again. This time only after a few days the law enforcers caught up with him.

The incident happened yesterday around noon when police placed the convict, Ibrahim Marshal, 34, at the dock before at a Rajshahi court. The court was to issue his jail warrant in the case he had been convicted last year.

A few days back, on February 23, police arrested Ibrahim, from Beel Shimla area of the city, for peddling illicit drug heroin.

Yesterday, police placed Ibrahim before the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Jahidul Islam around 11:00am, said Wali Ibne Hossain, the bench assistant of the court.

Around 12:30pm, Ibrahim snuck out of the dock and ran out of the courtroom while the on-duty policeman was shutting a door beside the dock.

The police member tried in vain to chase him down as he had disappeared in the crowd on the court premises, Wali added.

Ibrahim's previous arrest was on August 4 in 2014 for anti-social activities in a city hotel, according to police and court officials. 

Few weeks later, Ibrahim was freed on bail and he had been absconding ever since.

On November 8, 2017, a court sentenced him to one-month's imprisonment along with a fine of Tk 500 in the anti-social activities case, said court sources.

A new case has been filed against Ibrahim following his arrest for drug peddling.