Satkhira: A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) sustained bullet injures in a gunfight between his cohorts and police at Kazirhat Thakurbari in Kalaroa upaizla early Friday.

The victim was Abdul Mazid, 30, president of Kalaroa municipality unit JCD.

He was an accused in a case filed for attack on convoy of the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in Kalaroa on August 30, 2002.  

Anwar Syed, assistant superintendent of Satkhira Sadar Circle Police, said sensing sabotage, a patrol team of police challenged a group of criminals in the area at about 1:00am.

At one stage, the criminals opened fire at the law enforcers, prompting them to retaliate, triggering a gunfight.

Abdul Majid sustained bullet injuries on the left knee.

Police arrested him while the others managed to flee.  

He was rushed to sadar hospital.

Later police recovered one shutter gun and five rounds of bullet from the spot.

On August 30 in 2002, Sheikh Hasina, the then opposition leader, had gone to the district to visit a raped housewife.

On the way, BNP leaders and activists allegedly attacked her convoy allegedly on the instruction of the then lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib in Kalaroa.

The attackers fired gunshots to kill Hasina but she survived the assassination attempt while others accompanying her sustained injuries.

Moslem Uddin, the then general secretary of Kalaroa upazila unit Awami League, filed a case in this connection.  

Abdul Majid was an FIR accused in the case.

Abdul Majid had long been on the run after the incident.  

He was wanted in several criminal cases, said police.