The Rapid Action Battalion arrested a fugitive convict in Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's motorcade attack case in Sirajganj on Wednesday.
The arrested was Khaled Manzoor Romel, 42, who was sentenced to seven-year imprisonment by a Satkhira Court.
RAB-6 Commander Lt Col Moshtak Ahmed on Thursday disclosed the matter at a press briefing held at the RAB-6 headquarters in Khulna city.
Tipped off, a RAB-6 team conducted an operation in the Beltail area of Shahjadpur upazila in Sirajganj Wednesday and apprehended 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 imprisonment and 44 others to seven-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 the 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 Jashore from Satkhira.
