Journo Harun Murder
Accused killed in Rab 'encounter'
Staff Correspondent
Prime accused in journalist Harun-or-Rashid murder case and a regional leader of outlawed PBCP (Janajuddho) Rafiqul Islam Baby was killed in an 'encounter' between members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and his accomplices at around 3:30am yesterday at Madhya-danga in Daulatpur of Khulna city. Baby, 38, was arrested on Monday evening at Jugnipasha village under Phultala upazila of Khulna district. Two Rab men sustained bullet injury during the 15-minute encounter, a Rab press release said, adding that a pipe gun, a six-shooter gun, five bullets and two shells of used bullets were seized from the spot. Baby, who had been absconding for long, was one of the three charge-sheeted accused in the murder case of Shaikh Harun-or-Rashid, a reporter of the Dainik Purbanchal, who was gunned down on March 2 in 2002 at Mujgunni in Khalishpur under Khulna city. The slain outlaw was also wanted in 15 criminal cases including those for murders and extortion recorded with Daula-tpur Police Station since 1992. The judge of Khulna Divi-sional Special Trial Tribunal acquitted the three accused in journalist Harun murder case on February 7 this year.
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