One more RAB officer arrested over Narayanganj multiple murders

Another officer of a Narayanganj based Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) unit has been arrested over the murders of seven including a city corporation councillor and a senior lawyer.

Narayanganj Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 6 Sept 2014, 05:29 AM
Updated : 6 Sept 2014, 06:26 AM

Narayanganj's Superintendent of Police (SP) Khandakar Muhid Uddin told bdnews24.com that sub-inspector Purnendu Bala of RAB-11 was arrested over the sensational murders that shook the country.

RAB's Additional Director General Col Ziaul Ahsan told bdnews24.com that Bala went on a 10-day leave on May 2 and did not join to work since then.

"Purnendu Bala was arrested from a hotel at Dhaka's Farmgate area on Friday afternoon," he said.

RAB-11 Commanding Officer Anwar Latif Khan said they had handed over the officer to the local Detective Branch upon request from the investigating officers of the murders.

Seven men, including Narayanganj City councilor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar, were abducted on Apr 27. Their bodies were found floating in the Shitalakhyya River several days later.

Relatives of Islam and Sarkar filed two separate cases over the incident.

Islam’s father-in-law claimed RAB personnel had taken Tk 60 million from the prime suspect Nur Hossain to carry out the murders.

Three former RAB-11 officials – ex-commander Tarek Sayeed Mohamad, Arif Hossain and MM Rana -- have reportedly confessed to their crimes in court.

Nine more RAB-11 personnel have given confessional statements as eyewitnesses of the abduction and killings.