Police nab 2 of the 3 ex-Rab officers

A day after the military green light, police officials investigating the Narayanganj 7-murder have arrested two of the three Rab officers from Dhaka Cantonment for their suspected ties. They are former Lt Col Tarek Sayeed Mohammad, who was the Narayanganj-based Rab-11 Commanding Officer, and former Maj Arif Hossain of Bangladesh Army, Narayanganj’s Superintendent of Police Khandker Mohid Uddin said. Minutes past 4am Saturday, he said that they did not find former Lt Commander MM Rana Bangladesh Navy, another accused in the multiple-murder case. “But we are taking the other two after arresting them.” Mohammad is the son-in-law to Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya. A little before 4am, two police officials said that the arrestees were kept at Cantonment Police Station. They were to be taken to Narayanganj once the formalites were over. Speaking to bdnews24.com, Narayanganj SP Mohid Uddin around 2:30am Saturday evaded a direct answer when asked whether they were going to arrest the trio soon. “We are working on it. Stay awake, you might get the news.” Cantonment police assisted their Narayanganj counterparts in making the arrests as they were notified earlier in the day. Seven men, including Narayanganj City’s Ward-2 Councillor Nazrul Islam, who was also the panel mayor, and senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarkar, were abducted on Apr 27. Their bodies were fished out from Shitalakkha and Dhaleswari rivers over two days - Apr 31 and May 1.