Abrar Fahad murder: Death row convict Muntasir Al Jamie fled Kashimpur Jail on 6 Aug, remains at large, police say
Chhatra League member Muntasir Al Jamie, convicted in the murder of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology's (Buet) student Abrar Fahad, fled the Kashimpur Central Jail on 6 August last year.
Md Jannatul Farhad, assistant inspector general (media) of the Department of Prisons, confirmed the matter to The Business Standard today, saying, "On 6 August [2024], Jamie fled from Kashimpur amid high security. He is still at large."
Jamie, also an expelled BUET unit BCL member, was sentenced to death in 2021 among 20 other Buet students for killing Abrar in 2019. Five others were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Earlier on the day, Abrar Faiyaj, younger brother of Abrar Fahad, posted on his Facebook profile that his family was informed about the matter today when his lawyer did not turn up in court.
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"The convict was supposed to be in a condemned cell. How could he escape…There are three more absconding," he wrote.
Abrar, a second-year student of the Electrical and Electronics Engineering (EEE) Department of Buet, was beaten to death by the convicts, who are activists of Chhatra League, at the university's Sher-e-Bangla Hall on 7 October 2019.
