Outlaw held with arms

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested an alleged outlaw at Aichgati village in Rupsha upazila yesterday. They also recovered a foreign made revolver and two bullets from his possession. Arrestee Ratan Bashak, 27, son of Robin Bashak of Dumuria upazila, is a leader of outlawed New Biploby Communist Party (NBCP). Acting on a tip-off, a team raided the area and arrested Ratan along with the arms and bullets, said Mir Moddasser Hossain, assistant police superintendent of Rab-6. Ratan was accused in a number of criminal cases, said the ASP.