Some Recent Cases
1. On October 25 (2017), army personnel detained seven Detective Branch police members in Cox’s Bazar with Tk 17 lakh, allegedly realised as ransom from the family of Abdul Gafur, 28, a blanket trader as claimed by his family.
2. On September 7 (2017), 11 police and Ansar members, including the officer-in-charge of Khulna’s Khalishpur police station, were sued on the charge of damaging both eyes of a man while torturing him in custody. Renu Begum, the wife of the victim Shahjalal, filed the complaint with the court of the chief metropolitan magistrate, accusing nine cops, two Ansar members and two residents of Khulna city. Both of the cases were under investigation by the PBI.
3. On April 27 (2014), Narayanganj panel mayor Nazrul Islam, his three aides and driver and senior lawyer Chandan Sarkar and his driver were kidnapped from the Dhaka Naryanganj link road separately. Six decomposed bodies were seen floating in the Shitalakkhya three days later and were rescued. The allegations of the RAB officials’ involvement into the kidnap and killing came into light when Nazrul Islam’s father-in-law claimed before the media that RAB men committed the crime in exchange for Tk 6 crore from Nur Hossain, a councilor of Narayanganj city, and others.