[Bangla Daily Star] A criminal sustained bullet injury in a 'shootout' with Rapid Action Battalion in the city's Motijheel yesterday. "Aaaaiiieee! I am injured!"
"What wuz the agent of your injury, Rocket Lalu?"
"It wuz a bullet!"
Ismail Hossain Lalu alias Rocket Lalu, 34, of Jatrabari, is an accomplice of "Foreign" Kuddus, one of the top listed criminals in Motijheel area.
He has the death sentence on twelve systems...
When a patrol team of Rab-3 moved to arrest a gang of three to four criminals in front of Motijheel Ideal School and College, the criminals opened fire on them. As the Rab personnel retaliated, a gunfight ensued.
"It's the Rab! [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!] You'll never take us alive, coppers!... Ow!... Ow!... Hey! Stop that! You're hurting me!"
Lalu was found lying at the spot bullet-hit in his left leg after the shootout.
"Aaaaiiieee! My kneecap! I am injured!"
He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
"Comin! through! Comin' through! Got bullet injury here!"
Police arrested him but his accomplices managed to flee.
"Rocket Lalu, yer under arrest!"
"You'll never get me to the calaboose, copper! My gang'll... Say! Where is my gang?"
A revolver and three bullets were recovered from the spot.
"I found these, chief!"
"Hmmm... Where have I seen these before?"
Rab sources said Lalu confessed his involvement in killing trader Anwar at the capital's Shapla Chattar on September 27, 2008.
"I dunnit an' I'm glad! Glad, I tells yez!"
Lalu was also involved in extortion and an accused in several cases including arms cases with Motijheel and Sabujbagh police stations.
"Yasss. They were all my work!"