Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-6) has arrested a fugitive convict in Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's motorcade attack case, from sadar upazila in Satkhira.
The arrestee is Md Abdul Malek, 47, who was awarded seven-year imprisonment by a Satkhira Court.
On secret information, a team of RAB-6 of Satkhira camp, conducted a drive in Kushkhali area of sadar upazila and arrested Malek from his relative's residence on Tuesday.
The arrestee was handed over to Kolaroa police station.
On April 18, a Satkhira court convicted and sentenced four people, including former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib, to life term imprisonment and 44 others to 7-year jail each in two cases filed over the 2002 attack on the motorcade of the then opposition leader and incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Satkhira Special Tribunal Judge Biswanath Mondal pronounced the verdicts in the two cases filed under arms and explosive substances acts.
A total of 38 convicts were present in the court during the deliberation of the judgment while Khaled Manzoor Romel, among others, was at large.
The miscreants on August 30, 2002, attacked and hurled bombs on the convoy of the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina and even shot at her, as her motorcade reached in front of Kolaroa upazila BNP office in Satkhira on the way to Jessore from Satkhira.