RAB held a notorious terrorist and later seized three arms and 54 rounds of bullet from his den at Azimpur in the city early hours of yesterday. Paribahan Qamrul in a rickshaw was passing through the Azimpur Orphanage crossing at 2:30am. He was held in a drunken state. After interrogation Qamrul was taken to his arms den behind the Population Bhaban and two pistols, one gun and 39 rounds of bullet hidden under the earth were recovered.
| What? He was arrested drunk at 2:30am, interrogated and taken to his den to collect arms, and no "crossfire" broke out? What has become of the RAB we know and love? |
| Well, that's no fun |
Outlaw held in Rajshahi
Mar 17: A top listed criminal and front-ranking leader of the outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) was arrested today from Naodapara under Shah Mukhdum police station in the city. Being informed, Detective Branch (DB) police of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) conducted a sudden raid and arrested the extremist leader, Mohabbat Hossain alias Ukil, 32, son of Ashraf Ali, from his residence at Baigachha village under Baghmara upazila of the district.
The arrested is an accused in five criminal cases, including two sensational murder ones, and has been hiding for last couple of years. He is a chargesheeted accused in the UP Chairman Golam Rabbani murder case of Baghmara police station.Ctg arms haul case accused held in capital
A charge-sheeted accused in the country's biggest-ever arms haul case was arrested at Mirpur in the capital on Thursday, about a year after the seizure of 10 truckloads of arms and ammunition in Chittagong. Tipped off, the Mirpur police raided a house, Habib Manjil, in Lalkuthi area at about 2:30am and arrested Haji Yakub Ali, one of the 43 accused in the case. Yakub was sleeping when the police raided the house. Yakub, who hails from Purba Bagkhail village in Patiya of Chittagong, went into hiding after the police and the coast guards seized the arms and ammunition stuffed in 1,463 wooden boxes in the trucks at the Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Limited jetty on April 2, 2004. The boxes contained 4,930 sophisticated firearms, 27,020 hand grenades, 840 rockets, 300 accessories of rocket launchers, 2000 launching grenade tubes, 6,392 magazines and 1,140,520 ammunition.
| Wow, that's a big shipment, even by Islamic standards. |