Members of the Rapid Action Battalion have arrested Mushfiq Uddin Togor, who served life term imprisonment for murdering Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology student Sabekun Nahar Sony, for his suspected involvement in illegal arms trade.
RAB-3 commander Lieutenant Colonel Faizul Arefin said this at a press briefing at the RAB media centre in the capital鈥檚 Karwanbazar area on Friday.
Acting on a tip-off about illegal arms trade, a team of the battalion conducted an operation and arrested Togor with a firearm at Azimpur under Lalbagh police station on Thursday, he said.
He said that Togor had been collecting weapons illegally from the bordering areas and supplying them to people in Dhaka.
During the arrest, the RAB seized a revolver, a magazine, a wooden pistol grip, 155 rounds of bullets, one misfired 7.62 mm bullet, one empty shotgun cartridge, two masks and two mobile phones.
Based on his statements, further operations to recover weapons are going on, Faizul said.
Tagar was arrested on June 24, 2002 in the Sony murder case.
On August 20, 2020, he was released from Kashimpur Central Jail under the government鈥檚 鈥榮pecial consideration鈥�.
Tagar, a former leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, and two others were sentenced to death in the Sony murder case on June 29, 2003.
Later, the High Court commuted their death sentence to life imprisonment on March 10, 2006.
Sony, a second-year student of BUET鈥檚 chemical engineering department, was killed in June 2002 during a clash between two groups of Chhatra Dal. The groups exchanged gunfire on the BUET campus, and Sony was caught in the line of fire.