KHULNA, April 20, 2023 (BSS) - Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-6) arrested a fugitive convict in Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's motorcade attack case in Sirajgang on Wednesday.

The arrested was Khaled Mazoor Romel, 42, who was awarded seven-year imprisonment by a Satkhira Court.

Commander of RAB-6 Lt Col Moshtak Ahmed today disclosed the matter in a press briefing at the RAB-6 headquarter in the city.

Being tipped off, a RAB-6 team conducted an operation at the Beltail area under Shahjadpur upazila in Sirajgang yesterday and arrested the fugitive convict.

He will be handed over to Kolaroa Police Station in Satkhira soon.

On April 18, a Satkhira court convicted and sentenced four people, including former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib, to life term imprisonment and 44 others to 7-year jail each in two cases filed over the 2002 attack on the motorcade of the then opposition leader and incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Satkhira Special Tribunal Judge Biswanath Mondal pronounced the verdicts in the two cases filed under arms and explosive substances acts.

A total of 38 convicts were present in the court during deliberation of the judgment while Khaled Manzoor Romel, among others, was at large.

The miscreants on August 30, 2002 attacked and hurled bombs on the convoy of the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina and even shot at her, as her motorcade reached in front of Kolaroa upazila BNP office in Satkhira on the way to Jassore from Satkhira.