Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Sahida Khatun, wife of outlawed Gono Mukti Fouz (GMF) Chief Aminul Islam Mukul, with a pistol and two bullets from the capital's Kalabagan area yesterday.
Rab-2 Deputy Commander Maj Anwarul Haq Choudhury told this correspondent that they arrested Sahida after conducting a raid in a house around 4:30am.
“During primary interrogation, we came to know that Sahida was also involved in the outlawed party's activities,” he said.
Police and Rab in Kushtia said Mukul, also a resident of Kushtia, is accused in at least 25 murder cases. He fled the country after the last caretaker government assumed the power.
In 2010, he was arrested by Indian police. An Indian court in Paschimbangla sentenced him to two years' jail for illegally staying in India in the same year, they said.