Army rolls out to nab fugitive BDR rebels

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The government has ordered the armed forces to assist the civil administration until all fugitive BDR personnel are rounded up, the home minister said Monday, reports bdnews24.com.

The police and the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have been taking all measures to find out and arrest the rebel border guards fleeing since the February 25-26 mutiny, said Sahara Khatun.

The home ministry in a statement issued Monday asked members of the public to inform nearby police stations immediately if they had any information about border guards who escaped during the armed rebellion that left 77, mostly army officers, dead.

Military has been deployed indefinitely to help 'hunt down' the rebels and retrieve firearms missing in the wake of the mutiny.

"I have given instruction," the home minister told reporters.

When pressed on how long the army would be deployed, the minister said: "They will stay until all the fugitive BDR personnel are arrested."

On steps against the renegade BDR troops, the minister said: "A case has been filed against 1,000 border guards in connection with the mutiny. Other required measures are being taken."

The RAB and the police have arrested and detained hundreds of 'on-the-run' border guards since the mutiny.

The personnel had mostly fled the BDR headquarters during the 33-hour mutiny.

"Most of them were caught trying to leave the capital," said Masudur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Saturday.