A five-member CID team led by Sub-Inspector Arshad Ali, also investigation officer (IO) of the case, went to Rahim Bux Lane in Lalbagh in disguise and arrested Faruque who had been absconding for the last four years.

The IO said that the charge sheet against seven accused has almost been prepared.

Two of the accused, Amir Hossain Prakash and Ripon, were also arrested earlier. But Ripon is now on bail.

CID sources said Selim was killed in Lalbagh on August 28, 2003 as he refused to join a gang of muggers comprising the seven accused people.

Police recovered the body from the rooftop of a five-storey building the next day.

A case was filed with Lalbagh police station, which was later transferred to the CID police.