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Physician held in capital for Tahrir connection
DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Tuesday arrested a physician from city’s Uttara area on suspicion of his alleged involvement with the banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir.
‘Robber’ killed in Habiganj shootout
HABIGANJ: A suspected robber was killed in a gunfight between his cohorts and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Shahjibazar in Shayestaganj upazila early Tuesday.
5 Hizb ut-Tahrir members held
DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested five members of Hizb ut-Tahrir from the city on Friday, a day after the army said it had foiled a coup plotted by Maj Syed Mohammad Ziaul Huq, said to have links with the banned Islamist outfit.
A RAB detective was injured during the arrests at Road-8, Sector–6 of Uttara after the Jum’a prayers, Maj Ahsan of RAB–1 told bdnews24.com.
He, however, could not immediately name the injured RAB member or the detainees.
RAB’s image tainted by excesses: US envoy
DHAKA, JAN 18: Some past excesses have tainted the Rapid Action Battalion’s (RAB) considerable successes in fighting terrorism and criminality, said Dan W Mozena, the US Ambassador to Bangladesh, on Wednesday.
Outlawed party leader killed in Chuadanga shootout
CHUADANGA: An outlawed party leader was killed in an encounter between his cohorts and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Alamdanga of the district early Thursday.
The deceased was identified as Mokam, a regional leader of the outlawed party Janajudha.
Forkan missing after alleging ‘RAB torture’
Dhaka, Nov 21 (bdnews24.com)—A youth from Jhalakathi’s Indrapasha has been missing for one and a half years, since after he had narrated to journalists tortures he had allegedly faced in the custody of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
The family has no clues about the whereabouts of Mohammad Forkan but suspects that the elite crime-busting unit might have a hand behind the disappearance of the 26-year-old who used to hawk on footpaths.
The law enforcers, however, have categorically denied involvement.
district digest
The members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a retired assistant sub-inspector of police along with 130 bottles of contraband phensidyl syrup from Amtoli upazila of Barguna district on Saturday Focusbangla PHOTO
4 held with porno VCDs
Barisal: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested four people along with obscene VCDs and seven computers at Kamarkhali Bazaar under Bakerganj upazila Friday night
The arrestees are Mahbub Alam Khan, owner of Ma Telecom, Palash Chandra Das, owner of Chandni Digital Studio, Abul Bashar Dhali Khokan, owner of Mobile Servicing Center, and Mehedi Hasan Babu, owner of Tanha Digital Studio and Telecom
Pakiza Dyeing is fined Tk 3.5 mn
Dhaka, Oct 15 (bdnews24.com) – The Department of Environment (DoE) has fined Pakiza Dyeing and Printing Industries Ltd Tk 3.5 million on charges of pollution.
A DoE press statement said that a team, led by its director (monitoring and enforcement) Mohammad Munir Chowdhury, conducted a raid at the factory in Savar, with the help of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel, on Saturday.
The team found that the factory’s effluent treatment plant (ETP) was out of order and it was releasing toxic liquid filth through a bypass drain in the land adjacent to the factory.
Has Bangladesh's Elite Police Force Gone Too Far
Bangladesh News.Net
Sunday 19th June, 2011 (Source: www.time.com)
On March 27, Bangladeshi doctors amputated the leg of Limon Hossain, a 16-year-old student, four days after he was shot during a raid by the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Bangladesh’s elite security force.
Almost everyday since, Hossain’s name has made headlines in Bangladesh, becoming a symbol of accusations that the governments paramilitary force acts as judge, jury and executioner in its official mission to clean up this south Asian nation of crime and corruption.
6 ‘BGB recruiters’ arrested
Dhaka, June 18 (bdnews24.com) – The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested six people on the charge of conning people of over Tk 10 million on the false promise of getting them jobs in the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).
The RAB personnel also recovered 65 fake appointment papers and Tk 11.2 million from their possession, said a press statement on Saturday.
A case was filed against five people, including a BGB member, with the New Market Police Station in the city on June 14 for collecting illegally about Tk 7.5 million from 50 people on false promises of getting them jobs in the force.
Ward councilor arrested at Mirpur
Dhaka: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested local BNP leader and councilor of ward no.7 Munshi Bazlul Basid Anju from his residence at Mirpur section-6 this (Monday) morning.
Later, he was handed over to Pallabi thana.
Life-saving ORS being made with fertiliser!
DHAKA, May 15: Unscrupulous drug manufacturers are using Muriate of Potash (MoP), a fertiliser, to produce life saving oral saline (ORS), posing a serious health threat to millions of patients in the country. These crooks are also spiking energy drinks with phensidyl and alcohol, to give them an extra punch, according to an executive magistrate of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
Limon freed after 48 days in prison
BARISAL, MAY 9: Teenage college student Limon Hossain, whose left leg had to be amputated after being shot by the Rapid Action Battalion on March 23, was released on bail on Monday.
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