Rab sues seven
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday filed a case against seven persons including the two youths detained during a raid in Narsingdi on Sunday, suspecting their links with militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh.
Of the seven, the two accused -- Salahuddin, a former Dhaka University student, and Abu Jafar, a college student in Narsingdi -- were detained after they surrendered to Rab following the conclusion of the raid on Sunday.
The five other accused, who are on the run, are Al Amin from Narsingdi, Jony from Dhaka, Arif and Tarikul Islam from Bagerhat and Nazmul from Barguna.
However, the relatives of Salahuddin and Jafar claimed that the two students are innocent. They said the Rab filed the case against the two for saving its reputation and to establish that their raid was successful.
Lt Col Kamrul Hasan, commanding officer of Rab 11, claimed that they obtained the names of the five other accused through gleaning information from Salahuddin and Jafar during primary interrogation.
Golam Mostafa, officer-in-charge of Narsingdi Sadar Police Station, said a case was filed with the police station and they were trying to arrest the five others on the run.
On Sunday, Rab's 18-hour operation on a house in Narsingdi ended with "surrender" of five suspects.
Mufti Mahmud Khan, Rab's legal and media wing director, earlier said they had cordoned off the house in Narsingdi following a "lead" acquired during the law enforcers' raid in Sylhet's Atia Mahal.
On May 3, three of the youths rented three rooms of the house, according to locals.
Mufti Mahmud said they did not find anything after searching those rooms. Rab later released three of the five detainees.
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