Bangladesh: Elite force members held for extortion

Police has arrested three members of elite force RAB, including an assistant director Shoeb Ahmed and two army soldiers Shahidul Islam and Shagar Chandra earlier on July 24th.

The said members of RAB forcefully took Tajul Islam Hiran in a place in the capital and snatched Tk 10.86 lakh from his possession showing threat to kill him on cross fire earlier on Wednesday ,said Syed Sajjad Selim, Motijheel police chief

As Hiran logged an official complain with local police and traced the accused members of RAB,all of them were suspended from service and departmental enquiries started, said RAB-3 deputy director Major Khairul Amin

Police produced the arrestees to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on July 24th.The court sent them to jail pending trial yesterday ,said Syed Sajjad Selim, Motijheel police chief

Police was succeeded to recover Tk 7.5 lakh from the accused, said Syed Sajjad Selim, Motijheel police chief

Since 2004 almost 969 people have been killed while in custody, or in crossfires or in encounters with law enforcement agencies including RAB across the country.

Different human rights organization expressed their deep concern on the incident.

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1 Response for “Bangladesh: Elite force members held for extortion”

  1. sam_12414 says:

    You have hit on something that drives me CRAZY! I can’t stand rude people and lately they seem to multiply like rabbits.

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