Staff Reporter:
The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested six people, including alleged top criminal Farid Uddin Babu alias “Excel Babu”, in connection with the robbery of a bKash agent and an attack on police offic-ers in the capital’s Adabor area.
The arrested include Farid Uddin Babu, Rashed Khandaker, 32, Md Liton, 28, Md Tosir, 30, and Md Tariqul Islam, 25. Two other suspects, Amir and Rubel, were also apprehended during subsequent opera-tions.
RAB-2 Commander Additional DIG Naimul Hasan disclosed the information at a press briefing at the RAB Media Centre in Karwan Bazar on Wednesday.
According to RAB, a group of armed robbers entered a bKash outlet in the Shekhertek area of Adabor around 4:50pm on Tuesday. The attackers allegedly hacked the agent with a machete, snatched around Tk 3 lakh and a mobile phone, and fled the scene.
Acting on information, Adabor police later conducted a raid in the Turag Housing area. During the op-eration, the suspects allegedly attacked police officers with locally made weapons, seriously injuring Adabor Police Station Officer-in-Charge Zaidul Islam and Sub-Inspector Tarun.
Police opened fire in self-defence, leaving two suspects, Amir and Rubel, with gunshot injuries, officials said.
