DB: Mastermind of Avijit-Rajeeb killing fled the country
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Radical Islamist group Ansarullah Bangla Team leader Redwanul Azad Rana, suspected for masterminding the killings of secular bloggers Avijit Roy and Ahmed Rajeeb Haider, has escaped.
“According to available information and evidence we have got, Rana already left the country,” DMP Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam said but refrained from disclosing any further.
Another high official of the police, on condition of anonymity, yesterday said most wanted criminal Rana had flown to Australia around two weeks after the killing of Avijit on February 26 on Dhaka University campus.
The DMP on March 15 declared Tk5 lakh bounty for people who will help police to detain Rana or give information about his hideout. Earlier, the DB police issued letters to the Immigration Police and port authorities so that Rana could not leave the country.
According to the Detective Branch of police, former North South University student Rana coordinated the attack on Avijit and his wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya being present in TSC area at that time.
Police suspect that Rana, who leads a number of small groups of Ansarullah activists, might be behind the killing of Oyasiqur Rahman Babu at Begunbari of the capital on March 30.
He is also a charge sheeted accused in Rajeeb murder case, trial of which is set to begin on April 21. He is also wanted in the case filed for attack on another blogger Asif Mohiuddin.
Ansarullah chief Mufti Jasim Uddin Rahmani is the follower of international terrorist group al-Qaeda and strives to establish Islam in Bangladesh through jihad. Jasim and seven of his followers, including Rana, were indicted in Rajeeb murder case on March 18. All the accused are now in jail
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