Biswajit murder: Rab arrests fugitive convict after a decade

Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested a fugitive, who was sentenced to life imprisonment, in the case filed over the murder of tailor Biswajit Das 10 years ago.

Khandaker Mohammad Younus Ali (36) was arrested around 11:45am yesterday (October 31, 2022) from Kellapur area in Narayanganj, said Fazlul Haque, senior assistant director (media) of Rab-2.

Hailing from Magura, he was absconding since Biswajit (24) was hacked to death in broad daylight on December 9, 2012.

The victim was on way to his tailoring shop at Shakharibazar in Old Dhaka during a countrywide road-blockade programme by BNP.

In 2013, Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 sentenced eight accused to death and 13 to life imprisonment. The convicts later appealed against the verdict.

On August 6, 2017, the High Court upheld the death penalty of two of the eight death-row convicts, commuted the death sentence of four to life imprisonment and acquitted two others.