The anti-crime elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a death row convict who was in hiding for 17 years after killing his wife in Narayanganj.
RAB Legal and Media Wing Director Khandaker Al Moin disclosed it on Friday.
He was identified as Ashraf Hossain, 47, who was nabbed from Savar on Thursday,
A Narayanganj court in September, 2020 handed down Ashraf the death sentence for the murder of his wife, Sanjida.
Earlier on February 1 in 2005, local police found the hanging body of Ashraf’s wife at their home in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj . A case of unnatural death was filed on the suspicion that Sanjida had committed suicide.
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Police arrested Ashraf on charges of inciting the suicide. But he got bail after 12 days and had been in hiding since then.
An autopsy report submitted three months later showed that Sanjida had actually been killed.
Ashraf in 2006 managed a job as a journalist at a local newspaper in Savar’s Ashulia to dodge the law enforcers. He also got married again in the same year.
He became a member of Ashulia Press Club in 2009 and was also elected its organizing secretary for the 2013-14 term. Recently, he was working at a news outlet called Saptahik Swadesh.
RAB finally tracked Ashraf down after identifying his social media account using an old photo of Ashraf.
After gathering more information, RAB carried out a raid and arrested Ashraf.
