<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Monday arrested a fugitive convict who had been on the run since his conviction in Biswajit Das murder case in 2012.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The arrestee was Mosharraf Hossain alias Abdullah, 34, of Kishoreganj. He was sentenced to life in jail in the case.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tipped off, a team of Rab-2 arrested Abdullah conducting a drive in the city’s Gulshan area on Sunday night, said Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Md Fazlul Haque, senior additional director (Media) of RAB-2.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On December 9, 2012, tailoring shop employee Biswajit was chopped to death by some BCL activists near Bahadur Shah Park in Old Dhaka during the BNP-led alliance's countrywide road blockade programme.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On December 18, 2013, a tribunal sentenced eight BCL activists to death and 13 others, including Abdullah, to life imprisonment in the murder case.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On August 6, 2017, the High Court upheld the death sentences of Rafiqul Islam Shakil and Rajon Talukder and commuted the capital punishment of four other convicts — Mahfuzur Rahman Nahid, Emdadul Haque Emdad, GM Rasheduzzaman Shawon and Mir Nurul Alam Liman — to life term. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>