Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Iqbal Hossain, a convicted accused in the 21 August Grenade attack case, from Diabari area of Uttara in the capital on early Tuesday.

RAB Legal and Media Wing Director Lt Cor Ashique Billah confirmed the matter.

Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal sentenced 19 people to death, handed 19 others life terms and penalised another 11 with different jail terms on Oct 11, 2018 for their roles in the 2004 grenade attack.

Accused Iqbal got life term imprisonment in the verdict.

Prime Minister (then opposition leader) Sheikh Hasina survived the attack narrowly. However, 24 people were killed, including AL Women Affairs Secretary Ivy Rahman, and over 400 were injured in the grisly attack.

BDST: 1237 HRS, FEB 23, 2021
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