Ramna Batamul blast convict and Founder of Harkat-ul-Jihad Bangladesh, a banned militant outfit, Abdul Hye has been arrested.
A team of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the death row convict from Fatullah in Narayanganj, a Rab official said.
Abdul Hye has been awarded capital punishment in the cases of bombing in Kotalipara of Gopalganj and Ramna Batamul. He has been also sentenced to life imprisonment in several cases.
On 20 July 2000, police recovered a 76-kilogram bomb from near a shop adjacent to Sheikh Lutfur Rahman Govt High School, where Sheikh Hasina was supposed to address a rally on July 22 same year.
On 21 July 2000, another bomb weighing 40-kg was recovered from Gopalganj Sadar.
Ten people had been sentenced to death in this incident, all of whom had connections to Harkat-ul-Jihad.
On the morning of Pahela Baishakh, 14 April 2001, at least 10 people were killed and many injured in a bomb blast during a cultural programme at the capital's Ramna Batamul.
