Outlaw held in Pabna

25 November 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Pabna

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Tuesday night arrested an operative of outlawed PBCP (Lal Pataka) faction with firearm from Nurdaha village in Santhia upazila. Arrestee Tofazzal Hossain Tofa,53, is son of Dewan Pramanik of Alokdiar village in Santhia upazila. Rab said, that 4/5 operatives of the outlawed party were staying at Nurdaha village. On a tip-off, a team of Rab-12 raided the village at 11:00 pm on Tuesday. Sensing presence of the law enforcers the criminals tried to flee the spot. Rab charged them and arrested Tofa and recovered a shutter gun and two bullets from him. The arrestee is an accused in several cases including murder, loot and robbery.