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Arman provides 'cooked-up' info on his rivals

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Arman Khan, one of the country's 23 top criminals listed by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, is mainly disclosing the names of his rivals to a joint interrogation team of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and other intelligence agencies.
He is giving cooked-up information against his rival underworld gangs, said a top Rab official seek-
ing anonymity, adding that they were verifying his information.
The names Arman has so far revealed during the interrogation include Subrata Bain, Jisan, Rony, and Mollah Masud--all his rivals.
The Rab arrested Arman from a house in Dhanmondi on Friday morning and took him on a sevenday remand at the Rab headquarters in Uttara the following day.
Asked about Arman's involvement in the August 21 grenade attack, the Rab official said, "We are certain that he has no involvement in the incident because such a well-orchestrated attack is believed to have been carried out by a militant group."
He also said the Rab members raided several places mentioned by Arman as the hideouts of his gang members and rival groups but found no criminal or firearms at those places.
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The Rab yesterday raided a house in Uttara following Arman's information that Rashed, younger brother of Arman's rival Tikka, is hiding there. However, the Rab raid yielded no results.
Meanwhile, the Rab picked up a former ward commissioner, also uncle of Rashed, from his Maghbazar house and took him to the Rab headquarters yesterday to quiz him about Rashed and Tikka's illegal firearms.
Tikka had died on way to hospital after police shot him a few years back at Kalapani in Mirpur.
Arman told the police that he was in the country when the Rapid Action Team (Rat) arrested his boss Liaqat on October 2, 2003.
Police sources said Arman emerged as a top criminal after an incident of triple murder at Aga Mosi Lane in the 1990s.
Kolkata police arrested Liaqat, Arman and four others from the Kolkata New Market area on November 19, 2002, with two Italian 9mm pistols. Later, they were released on bail by an Indian court.
Sources said Arman often used to visit Bangladesh from India as his rivals Subrata Bain and his gang members, who are also hiding in India, posed a threat for him there.
The home ministry announced a bounty of Tk 50,000 for information on the whereabouts of Arman, an accused in about a dozen cases, including seven for murder, on December 27 in 2001.