Staff Reporter:
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in separate drives, arrested 16 members of a local Kishore Gang from city’s Mohammadpur area on Sunday.
The arrested are Ismail, Arif, Iman, Nazmul, Nadim, Md Wakil, Md Mojakkin, Manna, Sohel, Zahid, Belal, Md Dipu, Md Shanto, Md Tausif, Md Topu and Md Liton Mia.
During the operations, a huge amount of sharp local weapons were recovered from their possession.
“Acting on a tip-off, different teams of the RAB-2 conducted raids in Dhaka Udyan and Chandrima Udyan areas in Mohammadpur and nabbed them on Sunday afternoon and night,” Senior Assistant Di-rector (media) and Senior ASP Shihab Karim of RAB-2 said at a press conference held at RAB head-quarters this morning.
During the primary interrogation, they admitted that they carried out various criminal activities includ-ing robbery, theft, extortion to dominate the areas by terrorizing people, he said.
“Necessary legal action has been taken against them,” the RAB official added.
