Staff Reporter :
A team of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested two persons, including a death row convict of blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider murder case from the city’s Uttara area on Monday.
The arrested men were identified as convict Rezwanul Azad Rana and his aide Ashraf, an Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) member , police said.
Deputy Commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police media wing Masudur Rahman said, the Counter Terrorism Unit of Dhaka Metropolitan police nabbed them from a house in Uttara around 2:00pm,
They were being interrogated in this connection, the Police official said.
Earlier, a Dhaka court on December 31, 2015, handed down death penalty to two people-Rana, 34, and Faisal Bin Nayem alias Dweep, 24, — for killing Rajib Haider. They have also been fined Tk 10,000 each.
The court also awarded different jail terms to six others, including the chief of banned Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team, in the case.
Rajib Haidar, a blogger and activist of Shahbagh movement, was hacked to death on February 15, 2013, near his house in the city’s Mirpur .
He used to write against Jamaat-Shibir and war criminals on different blogs under the pseudo name of Thaba Baba.
