4 held with arms in Ctg

The Rapid Action Battalion last night arrested four people, including a former Bangladesh Chhatra League central leader, and recovered arms and bullets from their possession at Lalkhan Bazaar in the port city.

Saiful Islam Limon is also an accused in a double murder committed in the city's CRB area in 2013 over submission of a railway tender. He was out on bail.

 Rab-7 Commanding Officer Lt Col Miftah Uddin Ahmad said one of their teams raided the first floor of a six-storey building in Highway Society area around 6:00pm, and arrested Limon and three others. They had information that some criminals were hiding there.

A pistol, three other firearms and 6 bullets were found inside the house during the three-and-a-half-hour raid, said a Rab source.

According to the elite force, they raided two flats rented by Limon on that floor. Limon and his family members used to live in one and the other was being used as the den of Limon and his cohorts.

The identity of the other arrestees could not be known immediately.   

On June 25, 2013, supporters of Limon and former Jubo League central leader Helal Akbar Chowdhury Babar were engaged in a gunfight in CRB area over submission of a railway tender.

Two people, including a minor boy, were killed in the incident. They are Amran Hossain, 8, a slum dweller, and Jubo League activist Saju Palit, 25, of Nandankanan.

On this Monday, police pressed charges against 62 people, including Limon and Babar, in the case.