Villagers confine RAB team for 8 hrs in Satkhira
Sunday, 23 May 2010
SATKHIRA, May 22 (UNB): Villagers confined a 21-member team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) for eight hours in a house at Nathuardanga under Sadar Upazila Saturday when the team allegedly tried to implicate a local Awami League (AL) leader for possessing arms.
Local sources said the RAB-6 team, led by Major Kamruzzaman, went to Shafiqul Islam's house Friday midnight in the name of recovering arms.
RAB members asked Shafique, joint secretary of Sreenagar union AL, to open the door but when he refused the RAB members entered into the house by cutting collapsible gate and accused him of illegal possession of arms.
Later, hearing hue and cry, hundreds of villagers thronged the house and confined all the RAB members inside.
On information, Sadar thana officer-in-charge MA Hasem and upzila Vice-chairman SM Shawkat Hossain reached the spot with a contingent of police, rescued the RAB team and recovered the arms from the spot.
Local sources said the RAB-6 team, led by Major Kamruzzaman, went to Shafiqul Islam's house Friday midnight in the name of recovering arms.
RAB members asked Shafique, joint secretary of Sreenagar union AL, to open the door but when he refused the RAB members entered into the house by cutting collapsible gate and accused him of illegal possession of arms.
Later, hearing hue and cry, hundreds of villagers thronged the house and confined all the RAB members inside.
On information, Sadar thana officer-in-charge MA Hasem and upzila Vice-chairman SM Shawkat Hossain reached the spot with a contingent of police, rescued the RAB team and recovered the arms from the spot.