Police arrested a fugitive RAB personnel, one of the members of the team that executed the whole plan of the sensational Narayanganj seven murders, on Tuesday.
Lance Corporal Ruhul Amin of Rapid Action Battalion 11 was placed on a seven-day remand yesterday by a Narayanganj court following the arrest.
Senior Judicial Magistrate AHM Shafiqul Islam passed the order after police produced Ruhul Amin before the court in a case filed by the murdered panel mayor Nazrul Islam’s wife Selina Islam Beauty.
According to police sources, Ruhul Amin was involved in abducting the victims, administering injection to make them unconscious and then confirming their deaths by suffocating them with polythene.
He was arrested from his house at Saneshwar village in Baufal upazila of Patuakhali by Baufal police. Later he was picked up by a team of Narayanganj Detective Branch led by officer in-charge Mamunur Rashid Mondol, also the investigation officer of two cases filed in connection with the murders.
Mamunur Rashid said: “After getting information from different sources, we told Baufal police station that he might be hiding himself in his house. They kept an eye on his house for few days and was able to pick him up on Tuesday morning. He went missing since the murders.”
With this, a total of 13 people, including 11 RAB members, had been arrested in connection with the gruesome seven murders.
On April 27, Narayanganj panel mayor Nazrul Islam, his three associates and driver were abducted from Fatullah in Narayanganj city. At the same time, senior lawyer of the Narayanganj district judge court Chandan Kumar Sarker and his driver were also abducted.
Three days later, six bodies were recovered from Shitalakkhya and Dhaleshwari rivers. The body of Nazrul’s driver was found on May 1.
