RAB arrests fugitive convict who was in hiding for 20 years
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested a fugitive convict in Chattogram who had been absconding for 20 years.
The elite force on Friday arrested Abul Kalam Chowdhury, 70, son of late Abdul Latif in Hathazari, from a house in the port city's Chandgaon where he was in hiding, Md Nurul Absar, senior additional director of RAB-7, told reports on Saturday.
Abul Kalam Chowdhury of the Charia Kazipara area in Hathazari upazila had land disputes with three brothers – Abul Boshor, Badshah, and Kashem – in the same area for a long time. On 26 May 2003, Abul Kalam and his accomplices brutally killed the three brothers by shooting and hacking them with machetes.
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Kazi Mafjal Master, brother of the deceased, filed a case with Hathazari police station against Abdul Kalam and 20 other people. The court awarded Kalam a life sentence and a fine of Tk50,000 in the case.
The RAB officer said Abdul Kalam has been handed over to the police station concerned.
