Police have arrested Masud Mia, 55, a fugitive sentenced to four years in a drug case in Dhunat upazila of Bogura, after 20 years on the run.
Dhunat police arrested him in a special drive in the Kaliakair area of Gazipur on Saturday (October 24). He was sent to Bogura district jail through the court at about 11am on Sunday.
Masud Mia is the son of Bulu Mia of Berer Bari Buribhita village in Nimgachhi union of Dhunat upazila.
According to police and local sources, Masud Mia was arrested by the then Shajahanpur police while selling drugs in 2004. A case was filed against him under the Public Safety Act. In 2006, a special tribunal court in Bogura sentenced him to four years of rigorous imprisonment in that case.
Before the verdict was announced, however, Masud Mia had been freed on bail from the High Court and gone into hiding. For the 20 years since then he had lived in disguise in Dhaka and the surrounding areas.
Atikul Islam, officer-in-charge of Dhunat police station, said Masud Mia, who had long evaded his sentence, was arrested in Kaliakair, Gazipur, in a drive carried out on a tip-off. He was sent to Bogura district jail through the court on Sunday after legal procedures.
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