Former Director General of National Security Intelligence (NSI) Brig Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim, a death row convict in 10-truck arms haul cases in Chattogram, died at a Dhaka hospital with Covid-19 infection.
Quoting Mahbubul Islam, jailor of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj The Daily Star reported that he breathed his last at the intensive care unit of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital around 6:00am.
He was admitted to the hospital on July 31 after he tested Covid-19 positive at Kashimpur Central Jail-2.
In 2014, a Chattogram court handed down death penalty to 14 people, including Abdur Rahim, ex-ministers Lutfozzaman Babar and Motiur Rahman Nizami, for smuggling 10 truckloads of arms into Chattogram during the BNP-led government’s tenure in 2004.