The arm recovery case raises eyebrows

An officer from Rab mentioned in one case that he arrested two men with a firearm at Madhya Pirerbagh in the capital 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 run away, Rab-4 NCO Golam Rasul wrote.

The Rab team nabbed them and found a revolver and two bullets in their possession at around 10.30 pm, the complaint filed with Mirpur Model Police Station said.

But security camera footage and other evidence seen by this correspondent suggest that Baizid and Bellal were picked up and put into a gray minibus at 10:13 p.m. near the Islamic Foundation office, which is more than 2 km from the scene mentioned in case. .

Those who apprehended them also took a Yamaha FZ v2 motorcycle from Baizid, 27, and Bellal, 35, both residents of Pashchim Agargaon.

In a CCTV footage from the Islamic Foundation area, a gray minibus is seen stopping near the parked motorcycle at 22:13 for one and a half minutes.

A man in a yellow shirt then drives off on a motorcycle, and the minibus follows.

In another clip from Kamal Sarani at Madhya Pirerbagh, the man in a yellow shirt with a rider holding a cordless phone stops the motorcycle near New Autocar Solution Works at 10.53 pm.

Four minutes later, the gray minibus and a Rab pickup arrive. Baizid and Bellal, both handcuffed, get out of the minibus.

Baizid’s mother, Shahnaz Sultana, said the men from Rab rode away on a motorcycle while holding her son and his companion in the minibus.

Law enforcement then put the firearm and bullets under the seat to stage a recovery and charge him with a case, she said.

She added that a local internet service provider bribed the Rab team to frame Baizid due to rivalry over business issues.

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

The other accused are local ISP Shihabul Islam Shayan, officer Rasul, Rab informers Saiful Islam Mithu and John and local Awami League leader Shantu Rahman Dulal, who used his connections to “convince Rab to enroll the son and Bellal’.

The Rab headquarters (Rab headquarters) in April began an investigation after the then home minister Asaduzzaman Khan sent a complaint filed by Shahnaz to the director general of Rab. Shahnaz also met the then textile minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak and sought justice.

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

Sources confirmed that the Rab headquarters inquiry committee questioned Rab members.

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

Assistant Sub-Inspector Atikul Haque drove Baizid’s motorcycle from Agargaon with Akhtaruzzaman as the pilot, he wrote.

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

He added that the Rab team did not put the firearm and bullets on the motorcycle, noting that “there is a possibility of doing such a thing as the motorcycle was in our custody.”

Baizid was released from prison in May, after one month and 26 days.

His mother said Baizid, Billal and a local named Noor Alam were talking when the minibus pulled up next to them.

“A man got out of the vehicle and asked who Baizid was. When my son nodded, several men got out and forced him into the minibus. Baizid later learned that the man who approached him had former 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 minibus and when he asked who they were, the men slapped him.

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

After a while they untied him and made him come down to Moddho Pirerbagh. Akhtaruzzaman then asked Baizid to remove the motorcycle seat. But, Baizid refused because he noticed that someone had forcibly lifted the chair and failed to put it back properly.

“Then a man from Rab kept hitting 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, NCO Rașul wrote that the Rab team found an 8.5-inch long revolver and two bullets under the seat of Baizid’s motorcycle.

The owners of two nearby shops, Muhammad Zahid and Jahangir Alam, were named as witnesses.

Contacted, Jahangir said he was at his shop when a man in uniform from Rab asked him to come out of the shop and take a look at what was found in the possession of a suspect.

“After I went and saw the firearm and bullets, they asked me to sign a paper and I did,” 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 that the seat does not fall into place properly if something as large as a revolver is placed under it.

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

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

Asked about the discrepancies, he said, “The court will decide if there are issues in the case.”

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

Arafat Islam, former director of the Rab Legal and Media wing, said that when a complaint is filed, a cell at the Rab headquarters investigates.

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