Narsingdi raid ends, three of five detainees freed
After the end of an anti-militancy raid in Narsingdi and detention of five youths yesterday, the Rapid Action Battalion released three of them last night since they did not find the trio's involvement in militancy, said a Rab official.
However, the official claimed that they found evidence against the remaining two.
Talking to The Daily Star around 10:00pm last night, Rab-11 Commanding Officer Kamrul Hasan said primary interrogation suggested that Salahuddin, a former Dhaka University student, and Abu Jafar, a college student in Narsingdi, had links with militancy.
In an 18-hour raid on a house, Rab detained the two along with three others -- Masudur Rahman, a class X student of Jamiya Kasemia Madrasa of Narsingdi, and Bashirul Islam and Moshiur Rahman, students of Narsingdi Government College.
The operation ended after the five "surrendered", said Rab officials.
Earlier, the family members of the detainees claimed that they were innocent.
Meanwhile, in his Facebook post, one of the detainees Abu Jafar said they were innocent and victims of a conspiracy.
He also appealed for the prime minister's help in his post saying that they were not militants, rather Awami League activists after Rab cordoned off the house around 4:00pm on Saturday.
Masudur Rahman, the tenth grader, said some people locked their house from outside while his tutor Salahuddin, the former DU student, was tutoring him.
Mufti Mahmud Khan, Rab's legal and media wing director, said following the lead found in the Sylhet's Atia Mahal raid, they cordoned off the house.
On May 3, three of the youths rented three rooms of the house, according to locals.
Khan said they searched one of the rooms but got nothing.
“We would check whether there is any militancy connection of the house owner, who is an expatriate; only then can we say clearly about the situation,” he said.
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