Bidhan confesses link with SQ Chy
Top criminal Bidhan Barua, with a 9mm pistol and two bullets, held in Rab custody in the port city yesterday.Photo: STAR
Arrested top criminal of the port city's Raozan upazila, Bidhan Barua, yesterday confessed to his political link with detained BNP leader Salahudin Quader Chowdhury. “My involvement with his political party will keep me alive. If I quit that party I might be killed,” said Bidhan, 46, while talking to the journalists at Chittagong Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) office at Patenga yesterday. After remaining absconding abroad for last six years, Bidhan was arrested by a Rab-7 team led by Major Ashfaque from a house of one Yusuf Alam near Lemua Bridge at East Silonia village in Feni around 2:30am on Friday. Rab-7 Commanding Officer (CO) Lt Col Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal yesterday said Bidhan was staying at the house in guise with changed appearance and a fake name of 'Yusuf Ali'. Same day, Rab men took Bidhan to his native village Adharmanik at East Guzra union under Raozan upazila and recovered a 9mm pistol, two bullets and a magazine from his house there. According to Rab and police sources, Bidhan was accused in 18 criminal cases including five murder cases filed with Raozan Police Station. He is also an accused in several other cases filed with different police stations in Chittagong, sources added. Rab-7 CO Kamal said they extracted important information from Bidhan during interrogation. Rab was monitoring Bidhan's position for last three years, said Kamal adding that, Bidhan went to Qatar in 2005 to escape arrest, worked at a firm there and returned to the country three weeks later. Bidhan said he came back to meet his family and denied any political instruction behind his return. Bidhan denied his direct involvement with any murder, but he said to have accompanied others in crimes including murder. Mentionable, Bidhan became a close aide of SQ Chowdhury after joining SQ's founded political party National Democratic Party as a cadre in 1990s and was involved in criminal activities at Raozan, Rangunia and other parts of Chittagong after forming his gang 'Bidhan Bahini'.
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