Two more convicted killers held in Kolkata

Two more fugitives sentenced to life imprisonment for killing former Awami League lawmaker Ahsanullah Master were arrested in Kolkata yesterday.
West Bengal police said they arrested Mohammed Masihur Rahman and his brother Mujibar Rahman from Esplanade in central Kolkata.
Earlier on Sunday night, Indian police arrested three convicted killers of the AL lawmaker and another convicted killer of a student leader of Titumir College.
Our New Delhi correspondent Pallab Bhattacharya reports: the three murderers -- Nazrul Islam Dipu, Wahidul Islam Tipu and Sahayet Hossain Manju -- were arrested from Gariahat in south Kolkata.
Dipu was sentenced to death while two others were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Ahsanullah Master murder case.
The other arrestee, Zakir Hossain Rupak, was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing former Titumir College students' union vice-president Ankhi, also a Chhatra League leader, few years ago.
Deputy Commissioner of Kolkata Police (Detective department) Jawed Shamim said fake Indian currency with a face value of Rs 20,000 was also seized from the two brothers arrested yesterday.
He said the Special Task Force nabbed the two brothers when they were waiting for an accomplice to hand over the fake currency consignment.
According to the police, the two escaped from a Bangladesh jail in 2005 and slipped into West Bengal where they were staying at Tegharia and Bagnan.
Mujibar was serving as a driver in Tegharia while his brother at a jewellery shop at Bagnan, police said.
They were also wanted in several other cases of extortion and murder in Bangladesh, a police officer said.
When contacted, Special Superintendent Abdullah Aref of Bangladesh CID said they were not informed of such arrest by the Indian police.
Ahsanullah Master was gunned down on May 7, 2004 in Tongi.
On April 16, 2005, a Dhaka court sentenced 22 people to death and six others to life imprisonment for killing Ahsanullah.