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| 1500 including political leaders nabbed | |
| 2007-02-24 | |
At least 1500 people including three UP chairmen, terrorists and political leaders were arrested and a number of firearms were seized in separate drives across the country on Saturday, report agencies.
In Chuadanga, two UP chairmen were arrested from Alamdanga and Damurhuda upazila in the district. Police arrested chairman of Khadimpur union parishad in Alamdanga upazila and also Jubo League leader Jillur Rahman from Hapania village at 12 noon when he went there in an invitation. He was wanted in several cases, police said. On Friday night, chairman of Damurhuda union parishad and also Jubo Dal president Rafiqul Hasan was arrested from near Damurhuda thana. In Pabna, police, in separate drives against terrorists, arrested four top terrorists, including local BNP leader Nizam. Police arrested children affairs secretary of district BNP Nizam from Radhanagar in the district while extremist leader Selim Chowdhury from Sujanagar upazila and outlaws Tuku from Bera upazila and Kalam alias Kamal from the Court area in the district town. Police said each of the arrested was wanted in at least five murder cases. Meanwhile, police arrested 1489 people on various charges in separate drives across the country in the last 24 hours ending at 6am Saturday. A release of police headquartersÂ’ said 11 firearms and 50 bullets were also recovered during the drive. Besides, policemen seized 106 motorbikes for not having valid documents, arrested two people and filed 242 cases under the Motor Vehicle Act. In Bandarban, army and BDR personnel in joint drivers seized seven firearms and huge narcotics, gunpowder and military equipment and arrested three terrorists from Thanchi upazila in last seven days since February 17. During the drives, they also destroyed over 100 poppy fields and 10 dens of the terrorists. S ources said Army and BDR started joint operation in the Thanchi upazila on February 17. A total of 50 teams of the joint forces were sent to the upazila by helicopters. During the drives, they seized 11 litres of liquid heroin, 11 grams of gunpowder, six homemade guns, one SBBL gun, 40 rounds of bullet and different containers used by the army. Three tribals - Laling Murong, Rengleng Murong, Eu Marma - were arrested after a gunfight on February 18. Local terrorists also sprayed bullets on the patrol team of the joint forces when they attacked their dens on Friday. Security sources said they would continue their drives until uprooting terrorists and poppy fields in the upazila. The joint forces also recovered eight sharp weapons, walky-talky, some bags and huge drugs during the drive. BSS adds Rangpur: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-4 from Mirpur, Dhaka arrested four persons including an Indian national from Bhurungamari frontier areas in Kurigram and recovered huge illegal arms, ammunition and heroin from their possession on Friday. Police sources said the RAB team in guise of arms traders went to the frontier areas on Friday noon and made a deal with the notorious terrorists and cross-border arms smugglers. At one stage, the team arrested notorious arms smugglers Abul Kalam Azad, 34 and Khalilur Rahman alias Shaju, 28 of village Kamat Angaria from Bhurungamari bus stand while `purchasingÂ’ illegal arms. RAB also seized two point 38 bore sophisticated American origin revolvers and four round live bullets from their possession. As per their confession, RAB later raided the house of their other associate Lutfar Rahman, 20, in frontier village Dakhshin Dholdanga in Bhurungamari upazila and arrested Lutfar along with Indian national Abdul Majid Sheikh, 25 from the house and recovered 100 grams smuggled Indian heroin from their possession. Later, RAB handed over the arrested criminals to Bhurungamari thana police after filing three separate cases in these connections against them. The arrested persons were sent to jail hajat when police produced them before a Kurigram court today, the sources said. | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 So what's with the RAB handing over any criminal to anybody, other than Quincy, that is? Did they excced their daily bag limit and had to wait till tomorrow to properly execute their mission???? |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2007-02-24 20:10 |
| #1 I have not been paying too much attention to the Bangladesh stuff lately as they will all die when China steals their river in a few years. So, I heard some mention the other day of a coup within the last year. When did that happen and what's the good vs bad rating numbers on the new great leader? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-02-24 13:16 |