Bangladesh police today arrested the elder daughter of a key fugitive accused in the assassination of the country's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, as officials suspect of possible attempts to disrupt the murder trial at its final stage.
Mehraj Rashid Khandaker, daughter of absconding ex-army Colonel Abdur Rashid who is on the run to evade death penalty, was arrested here in connection with the bomb attack on a ruling party lawmaker and a key lawyer on the prosecution side of the trial, police officials said. The arrest came as the final appeal hearing of the 1975 coup plotters was underway at the apex court.
Mehraj's arrest from her posh Gulshan residence came a day after the brother of ex-army Major Shariful Haque Dalim, an absconding convict, was remanded in custody for eight days along with another suspect on a court order for their suspected link to the attack on Fazle Noor Taposh.
Taposh, a nephew of prime minister Sheikh Hasina and whose parents were also killed in the 1975 carnage, had escaped with minor injuries in the attack carried out three days ago.
Meanwhile, prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who is now in Sweden to join an international conference, today told a reception at Stockholm that she suspected the role of the 1975 coup plotters in the attack on Taposh.
