[Bangla Daily Star] A Bangladeshi citizen picked up by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Saturday from Comilla's Brahmanpara upazila border is a member of elite force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), an Indian newspaper reported.Mohammad Milan Hussain, a soldier of the Rab, is now on judicial custody for two weeks, according to The Hindu report.
Contacted by The Daily Star for verification, Lt Col Ziaul Ahsan, director of Rab's intelligence wing, said they had no knowledge of any Rab man's arrest by the Indian law enforcers.
According to the Hindu report, Milan infiltrated Rahimpur village in Indian side near the international border while on a mission to search for a consignment of Phensedyl, a banned cough syrup which is smuggled into Bangladesh in large quantities.
As villagers protested the raids, a woman and a few others were injured, said the report.
"The villagers caught one Rab man while the rest fled across the border," Timir Das, Seepahijala, additional superintendent of police (ASP), told The Hindu.
The Rab men were in civilian clothes but armed, the ASP added.
Hussain informed the BSF and the police that his team was headed by a senior officer, Mohammad Kamruzzaman.