Advisor: Update with details
Dhaka, March 1 (BDNEWS) – Nasir, a most wanted criminal of Chittagong, who was awarded death penalty by a court for killing principal Gopal Krishna Muhury, was nabbed by RAB from capital’s Jatrabari Monday night.
The RAB also recovered an AK-47 rifle from his possession.
A notorious criminal Nasir, widely known as Gittu Nasir, is accused in at least 20 other criminal cases including sensational ‘eight-murder’ and ‘triple murder’ cases.
Besides, at least six cases and two general diaries were registered with the Chandgaon, Panchlaish, Baizid and Kotwali thanas against the Islami Chhatra Shibir cadre.
Acting on a tip off, a team of RAB-7, deployed in Chittagong region, apprehended Nasir from a house at Daania in the capital.
Later, the black strikers took him to Chittagong to catch his (Nasir) accomplices and recover deadly weapons in his custody.
Colonel Chowdhury Fazlul Bari, second-in-command of RAB, admitted the arrest.
Gittu Nasir and his armed accomplices gunned down eight Chhatra League activists by brushfire on July 12, 2000.
The Shibir cadre and his accomplices brutally gunned professor Muhury storming his house in November 2001. A Speedy Trial Tribunal sentenced him death penalty in abstentia.
They killed Saiful, another Chhatra Shibir cadre, and two of his brothers at Baluchara area in June 2004.
Nasir is also an accused in a ward commissioner killing case in the port city.
Quoting police, BDNEWS Chittagong correspondent reported that Gittu Nasir established the reign of crime at Sholo Shahar, Hathazari, Bahaddarhat and Chandgaon areas enjoying the blessing of Islami Chhatra Shibir.
He had been dominating the area since the arrest his ‘creator’, another Nasir, in 1997.
Gittu’s leading accomplices were Habib Khan, Sajjad Khan, Foyed Munna and Five Star Jashim.
Among them, Foyez Munna was killed in a ‘crossfire’ with the RAB on February 13 this year.
Shahjahan Chowdhury MP also the Nayebe Ameer of Chittagong city Jamaat said that he did not know Gittu Nasir. “He has no link with Chhatra Shibir,” the MP added.
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