Buet student Sony murder convict Tagar arrested with revolver, bullets
A revolver and 156 rounds of bullets were recovered from the possession of the arrestee, RAB says
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested Md Mushfique Uddin Tagar, a convict in the 2002 murder of Buet student Sabekun Nahar Sony, from the Azimpur area of the capital.
A revolver and 156 rounds of bullets were recovered from the possession of the arrestee, said a text message sent to media by RAB Media Wing tonight (18 September).
Details regarding the arrest will be disclosed in a press conference tomorrow (19 September), said the message.
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Tagar, a former Chhatra Dal leader, was sentenced to death along with two others in the Sony murder case on 29 June 2003.
Later, the High Court commuted their death sentence to life imprisonment on 10 March 2006.
Tagar was freed after spending his jail term.
A total of four convicts are in jail while two others - Mokammel and Nurul - are absconding.
On 8 June 2002, two groups of Buet Chhatra Dal, the student wing of then ruling party BNP, locked in a clash in the campus over tender.
Sony, who was returning to her residential hall from attending class, died as she sustained a bullet injury during the fight.
The incident created a buzz across the country as it set the notorious precedence of murdering a female student in campus violence.
