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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quoting Mahbubul Islam, jailor of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj The Daily Star<\/em> reported that he breathed his last at the intensive care unit of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital around 6:00am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He was admitted to the hospital on July 31 after he tested Covid-19 positive at Kashimpur Central Jail-2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[16,7019,9],"tags":[8611,113],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Abdur-Rehman.jpg?fit=1200%2C558&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3500,"url":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=3500","url_meta":{"origin":11636,"position":0},"title":"Makbul Hossain, politician","date":"May 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Makbul Hossain \u2011 a businessman, Bangladesh Awami League politician who served as a Jatiya Sangsad member representing the Dhaka-9 constituency \u2011 died on 24 May 2020 undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at Combined Military Hospital. \u00a0 Hossain was born c.\u20091950 in Bikrampur. 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