Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)
Rab arrests 7 members of militant group
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claims to have arrested seven members of the militant group Allah'r Dal from Dhaka’s Dakkinkhan area.
21 June 2020
Rab arrests 3 for making fake Covid-19 certificates
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has detained three people from a photocopy shop in the capital’s Mugda for making fake negative and positive Covid-19 certificates.
15 June 2020
Magistrate Sarwoer Alam coronovirus positive
Rab Executive Magistrate Sarwoer Alam, who continued drives against irregularities amid the shutdown, tested positive for Covid-19.
7 June 2020
Libya Killings: Rab claims to have arrested member of trafficking ring
Rab claims to have arrested a human trafficker who trafficked some of the 26 Bangladeshi nationals killed in Libya on May 28.
1 June 2020
2 held as Rab busts firearms factory in Chattogram
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-7) claims to have busted a firearms making factory at a remote hilly area between Rangunia and Paitya upazilas of Chattogram, and arrested two persons including a firearms maker in this connection.
14 May 2020
‘Child murderer’ killed in ‘gunfight’ with Rab in Gazipur
A fugitive in a child murder case was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Gazipur early today.
4 May 2020
Rab arrests 3 ‘Ansar Al Islam members’ in Rajshahi
Rapid Action Battalion members arrest three suspected activists of the banned militant group Ansar Al Islam from Rajshahi city.
2 April 2020
ABT man held in Dhaka: Rab
Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have arrested a member of the banned militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team in a drive that was carried out at Rajuk Uttara Housing Project today.
30 March 2020
Tk 31.7 crore in cash, FDR seized from the house of Enamul, Rupon
A Rapid Action Battalion team recovers cash worth Tk 26.55 crore and bank fixed deposits worth Tk 5.15 crore from the residence of Enamul Haque Enu, former vice-president of Gendaria Awami League, and his brother Rupon Bhuiyan in Wari, Dhaka.
25 February 2020
Jubo Mohila League leader's world of crime uncovered
Rab raids two flats belonging to Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman Sumon after arresting them from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Saturday.
23 February 2020
Missing Rab official returns home after 18 months
Lt Col Hasinur Rahman, a former commanding officer of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), returns home over 18 months after he went missing.
22 February 2020
Drug case: Charges against GK Shamim, Khaled Mahmud accepted
A Dhaka court has taken cognisance of charges against SM Golam Kibria Shamim, a top government-listed contractor, and Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan, an expelled leader of Jubo League, in two separate cases filed under the Narcotics Control Act.
10 February 2020
Rab destroys South American cocaine worth Tk 9,000 crore in Ctg
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) destroys 370 litres of South American liquid cocaine that were smuggled into Chattogram Port from Bolivia in guise of sunflower oil consignment in 2015.
5 February 2020
DU student rape: Rab says suspect is a 'serial rapist'
The man who was arrested for raping a Dhaka University (DU) student claimed to be a serial rapist, Rapid Action Battalion says.
8 January 2020
Gun attack on Rab at Rohingya camp: Key suspect killed in 'gunfight'
Two hours after two members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) were injured in a gun attack by Rohingya drug peddlers at Neela Noyapara Rohingya camp in Teknaf upazila, the prime suspect has been killed in a reported gunfight with the elite force.
31 December 2019
4 'ABT militants' held in Khilkhet
Four alleged members of the banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) have been arrested in Nikunja area of Dhaka's Khilkhet.
1 December 2019
HC summons Rab magistrate for not providing copy of conviction order to convict
The High Court summons Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Magistrate Mohammad Sarowar Alam for not providing the certified copy of an order of the mobile court, which he conducted while convicting a person in July.
18 November 2019
Charges pressed against Kalabagan club president Shafiqul
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) presses charges against Kalabagan Krira Chakra President Shafiqul Alam Feroz in a case filed in connection with possessing an illegal firearm.
12 November 2019
Charge pressed against Samrat in arms case
Rapid Action Battalion presses charges against Ismail Hossain Chowdhury Samrat, a former Jubo League leader and an alleged kingpin of the illegal casino business in Dhaka, in a case filed under the Arms Act.
6 November 2019
232 wild animal hides seized in Dhaka; 2 jailed
A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seizes 232 hides of different wild animals including leopard and fishing cat from a shop in Paribagh area of Dhaka.
21 October 2019