The Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) of police has arrested a fugitive death-row convict in eminent writer Prof Dr Humayun Azad murder case after long 20 years.
The ATU arrested the convict Noor Mohammad from Airport Police Station in the capital after Monday midnight, said ATU Additional IGP SM Ruhul Amin at a press conference at ATU office in Dhaka on Tuesday.
SM Ruhul Amin said JMB leader Noor Mohamamd was a chargesheeted and death-row convict in Dhaka University Bengali department's professor Dr Humayun Azad murder case. The convict had been absconding for long 20 years.
A leader of banned militant outfit JMB, Noor Mohammad alias Sabu alias Shamim, 40, is the son of Abdul Gani of Jhoraborsha village under Saghatha thana in Gaibandha district.
At about 9:15pm on February 27, 2004, the 56-year-old Prof Humayun Azad was stabbed by militants on the Bangla Academy premises while he was returning from the Ekushey Book Fair.
His brother Manjur Kabir filed a case over an attempt to murder with Ramna Police Station the next day.
Critically injured Prof Humayun Ahmed was shifted to Munich, Germany, for advanced treatment where he died on August 12, 2004.
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