The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested one Farabi Shafiur Rahman over the murder of writer and blogger Avijit Roy.

RAB arrests Farabi over Avijit murder

Farabi was earlier arrested for inciting attacks on bloggers on the social media after blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider’s murder in 2013.

He had then secured bail from the High Court.

RAB’s Additional Director General Col Ziaul Ahsan told bdnews24.com that he was nabbed on Monday morning from Dhaka’s Jatrabarhi area while he was leaving the city.

“Fundamentalist blogger Farabi is the prime suspect of writer Avijit Roy’s murder,” Ahsan said.

Farabi had also threatened an online bookshop ‘rokomari.com’ to pull out Roy’s books from their site.