Fugitive convict and accused in 7 cases nabbed by PBI

Arrest

Dhaka, Feb 4 -- The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has managed to arrest an absconding accused in seven cases, including murder and drugs-related cases, from the city's Shyampur Rail line area.

The arrestee was identified as Sirajul Islam alias Montu Sheikh, 40, of Faridpur dictrict. He was indicted in a drug case filed at Chowk Bazar Police Station last year for smuggling phensedyl.

According to PBI, the address of Sirajul Islam and another accused Md Salam, provided in the case were wrong, and they appealed for exemption from the case. However, the court directed the PBI to re-investigate the case and arrest the accused on April 1 last year. Salam was arrested on January 25.

Investigating Officer Sub-Inspector Md Ashraful Islam, under the supervision of Special Superintendent of Police Md Jahangir Alam, unit in-charge of PBI Dhaka Metro (North), applied all the usual methods to identify the fugitive accused.

Later, the Investigating Officer made the arrest from Shyampur Rail line area around 4:30pm on Thursday after appointing special source and reviewing the CDMS, collected information about the fugitive accused Sirajul Islam, the release said.

During primary interrogation, the arrestee admitted that he along with two other accused in this case used to trade Phensedyl in different places of the capital after collecting those from border areas of the country.

On February 21 last year, the three accused in the case illegally brought 365 bottles of Indian Phensedyl from Dinajpur to Dhaka for trading. Sensing the presence of members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Chowk Bazar police station area, he and the accused Salam, 31, fled, but accused Chan Mia was detained by Rab.

There are several drug and murder cases against  Sirajul.  There were five warrants issued against him and he was even convicted in a case filed in Sirajganj, according to a PBI statement circulated to the press.

He was arrested earlier along with Phensedyl at Ghoraghat in Dinajpur where he provided wrong identity, he said during interrogation.

Sirajul Islam was presented before the court on Friday, it added. - UNB