Arm repair case raises eyebrows

A Rab officer mentioned in a case that he arrested two men with a firearm in the capital’s Madhya Pirerbagh late at night on March 30.

Abdur Rahim Sultan Baizid and Bellal Hossain were on a motorcycle when they saw a Rab team and tried to flee, wrote Rab-4 Petty Officer Golam Rasul.

The Rab team caught them and recovered a revolver and two bullets from their possession around 10.30 pm, said the complaint filed at the Mirpur Model Police Station.

But security camera footage and other evidence seen by this correspondent suggests that Baizid and Bellal were picked up at 10.13pm and put into a gray microbus near the Islamic Foundation office, which is more than 2 km away from the scene of the incident that occurred in the case is mentioned. .

Those who arrested them also took away a Yamaha FZ v2 motorcycle belonging to Baizid, 27, and Bellal, 35, both residents of Pashchim Agargaon.

CCTV footage from the Islamic Foundation area shows a gray microbus stopping at the parked motorcycle for a minute and a half at 10:13 p.m.

A man in a yellow shirt then rides away on a motorcycle, and the microbus follows him.

In another clip by Kamal Sarani at Madhya Pirerbagh, the man in the yellow shirt with a pillion holding a wireless handset stops the motorcycle next to New Autocar Solution Works at 10.53 pm.

Four minutes later the gray microbus and a Rab pickup arrive. Baizid and Bellal both get out of the microbus in handcuffs.

Baizid’s mother Shahnaz Sultana said the Rab men rode the motorcycle while keeping her son and his companion in the microbus.

Law enforcement then placed the firearm and bullets under the seat to effect a recovery and charge him in a case, she said.

She added that a local internet service provider had bribed the Rab team to trap Baizid over rivalry over business matters.

She filed a case against Rab-4 special company commander Akhtaruzzaman and five others in a Dhaka court on April 3.

The other suspects are local internet service provider Shihabul Islam Shayan, Warrant Officer Rasul, Rab informants Saiful Islam Mithu and John, and local Awami League leader Shantu Rahman Dulal who used his connections to “lead Rab to trap her son and Bellal to lure.”

The Rab Headquarters (Rab Headquarters) launched an investigation in April after then Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan sent the Rab Director General a complaint filed by Shahnaz. Shahnaz also met then textile minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak and sought justice.

The Rab Headquarters formed a three-member committee on April 29 and temporarily attached to the Headquarters 20 Rab-4 members who participated in the operation, according to a letter to the Rab-4.

Sources have confirmed that the Rab Headquarters Investigative Committee has questioned Rab members.

Officer Jhuton Bain has admitted in writing that the Rab team picked up Baizid and Bellal near the Islamic Foundation office in Agargaon on the orders of Operation Commander Akhtaruzzaman.

Assistant Sub-Inspector Atikul Haque was riding Baizid’s motorcycle from Agargaon with Akhtaruzzaman as a passenger, he wrote.

Jhuton said he and the others searched the motorcycle 40 minutes after Baizid and Bellal were arrested.

He added that the Rab team had not placed the firearm and bullets on the motorcycle, noting that “there was scope to do something like that since the motorcycle was in our care.”

Baizid left prison in May after a month and 26 days.

His mother said Baizid, Billal and a local resident named Noor Alam were talking when the microbus stopped near them.

“A man got out of the vehicle and asked who Baizid was. When my son nodded, more men got out and forced him into the microbus. Baizid later learned that the man who approached him was Akhtaruzzaman,” she said.

Noor Alam gave a similar account of the incident. He was not picked up by the Rab team.

Baizid told his mother that the Rab men handcuffed and blindfolded him in the microbus and when he asked who they were, the men punched him.

“Then he heard the men talking about where to go. The men made it look like they were going to kill him in a ‘crossfire,'” Shahnaz said.

After a while they took off the blindfold and made him get off at Moddho Pirerbagh. Akhtaruzzaman then asked Baizid to remove the motorcycle seat. But Baizid refused because he noticed that someone had lifted the chair forcibly and had not put it back properly.

“Then a Rab man kept beating him with a stick until he complied,” Shahnaz said, adding that when he lifted the chair, he saw the firearm and bullets.

In the case, Petty Officer Rasul wrote that the Rab team found an 8-inch revolver and two bullets under the seat of Baizid’s motorcycle.

Owners of two nearby shops Muhammad Zahid and Jahangir Alam were named as witnesses.

Jahangir was contacted and said he was in his shop when a man in Rab uniform asked him to leave the shop and look at what was found in a suspect’s possession.

“After I saw the firearm and the bullets, they asked me to sign a document, and I did so,” he added.

Zahid declined to comment, saying he faced many problems after speaking to a reporter earlier.

A Yamaha motorcycle dealer and a mechanic said the seat doesn’t fall into place properly if you put something large like a revolver underneath it.

Sub-inspector Rishit Khan, who investigated the case filed by Rab, said he had filed a charge sheet after the investigation and declined to comment.

Contacted, Akhtaruzzaman said there was no false information in the complaint filed against Baizid.

When asked about the discrepancies, he said: “The court will decide if there are any issues in the case.”

Jahangir Alam, senior police inspector at the Dhaka North Police Bureau of Investigation, which is investigating the case filed by Baizid’s mother, said: “We will investigate the case neutrally.”

Arafat Islam, immediate past director of Rab’s legal and media department, said that when a complaint is filed, a cell at Rab headquarters investigates.

“If someone is found guilty, he or she should be punished,” he added.