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RAB-ARMS-ARREST (with picture)
One held with illegal arms in Rangpur city
RANGPUR, Oct 18, 2019 (BSS) – Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-13) arrested an
alleged listed top terrorist with illegal arms and ammunition from Prime
Medical College and Hospital area in the city on Thursday midnight.
“On a tip off, a special operational team of RAB-13 conducted a raid in
the area and arrested the terrorist with arms and ammunitions,” a press
release issued by Media Officer of RAB-13 Major Galib Muhammad Naitkur Rahman
said today.
The arrested person is Abu Taleb Sarker, 42, son of late Abdul Jalil
Sarker of village Satvita in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram district.
The elite force seized a foreign-made pistol with two rounds of live
bullets and a magazine, one mobile phone set and cash money from his
possession during the raid.
Taleb had been creating a reign of terror in his area with his ‘Cadre
Group’ for long time and more than 20 criminal cases are pending against him
with different police stations in Kurigram district.
The elite force handed over arrested Taleb to the police station concerned
after filing a case in this connection against him today, the release added.
BSS/MI/MR/ 1258 hrs