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Cops kill N'ganj top criminal

OUR CORRESPONDENT, N'ganj
Police gunned down the leader of a criminal gang when he allegedly tried to flee from their custody at Pitalipul in Fatulla in the early hours yesterday.
Rekmat, 30, kingpin of a gang named after him, Rekmat Bahini, operating in Fatulla and Siddhirganj, had as many as 41 cases including 20 for murder against him, police sources said.
Police said Rekmat died when he tried to escape from their custody while his wife Sakhina alleged police shot him after he had surrendered.
Tipped off that Rekmat was hiding in a rented house of Hafiz Uddin Chowdhury at Tengri in Hazinagar, Demra, a platoon of Fatulla police raided the house at 2:30am yesterday,
Fatullah Police Station Officer-in-Charge Shafiq Ullah said.
Sensing the police presence, Rekmat with a revolver in one hand and a pistol in the other started to fire away at them in an attempt to break through their cordon, the OC told The Daily Star, adding in a few minutes he shot 41 bullets.
The platoon led by Narayanganj Police Super Ibrahim Fatemi and Shafiq launched counterattack and hit him once in the thigh, Shafiq described. Police nabbed him when the gangster ran out of ammunition.
Shafiq said Rekmat, during an interrogation in police custody, said his band's arms and ammunitions
were hidden at Nayamati in Pitalipul. A police team along with Rekmat went to Pitalipul reportedly in search of the cache.
"Saying he was going to show us the hidey-hole of arms, Rekmat got out of the police van and tried to run away." Police pumped four bullets into his stomach, thigh and personal parts killing him on the spot.
Locals alarmed by the gunshots rushed to the scene and found the terror dead.
LOCALS' REACTION
As the news of the killing spread in the locality, thousands gathered to see the body of the dreaded killer. Many spat, some kicked and threw shoes at it while many wept remembering their relatives killed by Rekmat and his pack. The locals also brought out a procession celebrating the end of a fright.
CRIMINAL RECORDS
Police has so far found 41 cases against Rekmat filed with Siddhirganj and Fatulla police stations including 20 for murder since 1996.
He allegedly killed Israfil in 1997, Dayal in 1999 and Karim, Ujjal and Gool Hossain on different occasions in front of hundreds of people in Nayamati area.