KURIGRAM, July 29: Police have arrested Mamun Mia, a life-term convict who escaped from Narsingdi District Jail during the quota reform protest violence on July 19. Mamun was arrested in Rowmari upazila of Kurigram district.
Mamun was sentenced to a life term in a murder case, and is from Babenchar village in the upazila.
Golam Matruza, Inspector of Rowmari Police Station, said that a police team arrested Mamun from his village home early Monday morning.
According to jail sources, Mamun escaped from the jail along with other inmates using various means of transportation, including vans, human haulers, and trucks, and returned to his village home, where he had been hiding ever since.
In 2019, Mamun was convicted under the Women and Child Repression Prevention Act for the murder of Marjia Akter Kanta in Belabo, Narsingdi. —UNB
