Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested former vice-president of students council of Chittagong Medical College Rashed-Un-Nabi Biplob and recovered firearms, bullets and explosive materials from his Rangpur resident Sunday night. Biplob is the younger brother of BNP central committee member Habib-Un-Nabi Khan Sohel. A Rab team led by Maj. Abdul Bari arrested him from near a hotel in the town at about 8:30 pm and took him to their camp. "Don't kill me! Please don't kill me!"
During primary interrogation, Biplob admitted that he possessed firearms, bullets and explosives, which he kept hidden at Rangpur BNP office near Grand Hotel, his rented house at Mulatol and his ancestral house at South Guptapara, Rab sources said yesterday. Acting on his confession, Rab recovered a pipe gun, some parts of a point 303 rifle, 6 machine gun bullets, one bullet of pistol and some explosive materials from his Mulatol house, a bomb from the party office and 26 bullets of shot gun from his other residence.
No accomplices? No shootout? No corpse? Wotta gyp!
Two cases were filed with Kotwali thana, one under the Arms Act and the other under the Explosives Act. Maj Bari said Rashed-Un-Nabi was an alleged criminal and several arms cases were filed against him with different police stations in Chittagong. He was also arrested in Chittagong with firearms last year but was freed on an interim bail, Rab sources said.