authorities have decided not to engage its personnel in any additional duties including search, guard or patrol in addition to the duties the elite force has been tasked with."In future, RAB will not perform the duties additional to the seven specific duties we are tasked with, unless the government asks us or we feel so," Wing Commander ATM Habibur Rahman, director of RAB's legal and media wing, said.
The decision was made at a meeting held last week at the RAB headquarters, chaired by its chief.
"We feel that guarding tender boxes, controlling traffic, setting up check posts at entrances of the capitals, intervening in issues relating to land, money and family matters, and guarding cultural functions are not part of our duties," he said.
"Now RAB will concentrate to its own tasks," Habib said.
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In response to another query, he admitted that the seven murders in Narayanganj prompted them to make such a decision.