BSS
  07 Dec 2025, 15:33

Fugitive accused in Rangpur murder case arrested in Keraniganj

RANGPUR, Dec 7, 2025 (BSS) - The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) -13 arrested the fugitive accused in a sensational Rangpur murder case over land dispute from the Konakhola area under Keraniganj model police station of Dhaka on Saturday afternoon.
 
The arrestee is Lebu Mia, 40, son of Abdul Jabbar from the village of Kisamat Menanagar under the Taraganj police station of Rangpur, according to a press release issued here this afternoon.

Citing the complaint filed by the plaintiff, the release said that the victim Khalequzzaman, 40, and the arrested accused are residents of the same village. They had been in a dispute over land for a long time. 

On October 31, 2025 at 7 am, while talking to the accused about removing the soil from the grave of the victim's grandmother, the accused hit the victim on the head with a stick and an iron rod in a pre-planned manner with the intention of killing him. 

Later, the victim's relatives and local people took the victim to Rangpur Medical College Hospital on the same day for treatment where he died while undergoing treatment at 7:05 am the next day. 
 
The victim's brother filed a murder case in this incident with Taraganj police station in Rangpur district on November 1, 2025. 
 
Considering the seriousness of the incident, RAB-13, along with other law enforcement agencies, started intelligence activities to arrest the accused.

On a tip off, a joint operational team of the RAB-13's Rangpur Sadar Company and the RAB-10's Keraniganj Camp in a raid arrested the absconding accused Lebu Mia from the Konakhola area under Keraniganj model police station of Dhaka at 1 pm on Saturday.
 
Later, the elite force handed over the arrested accused to Taraganj police station in Rangpur for further legal action.