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2 Rab men held for lootings

Staff Correspondent
Police early yesterday arrested two members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in connection with two separate looting incidents in the city last month.
After their arrest, Rab authorities suspended Subinspector Azizul Huq and Havilder Rafiqul Islam who were also placed on a three-day remand yesterday for interrogation.
The Rab-3 personnel were
SEE PAGE 15 COL 1 FROM PAGE 16 arrested following the confessions of Mosharraf Hossain and Jasim who were arrested on September 29 from Mymensingh in connection with the looting incidents.
Rab-3 Commanding Officer Lt Mamun Mahmud Firoz Chowdhury told The Daily Star, "As per police requisition, we have handed over them to Motijheel police station and already sus pended them as part of punitive measures against them."
Motijheel police said they arrested the Rab men after a case filed on September 6 by Milon Chowdhury, an employee of a gold shop in Chittagong.
In the case statement, Milon mentioned that six people including the two Rab personnel identified themselves as detective branch officials and picked up him from opposite a bus counter in Motijheel on September 6. They later snatched 45 tolas of gold, Tk 16,000 in cash and a mobile phone set worth Tk 25,000 from him.
Milon said he arrived at Kamalapur Railway station by a train from Chittagong in the morning with the gold in his possession and later went to Motijheel for going to New Market for the business purpose.
Sources said Mosharraf
and Jasim disclosed the names of the Rab members and two other retired police members.
Arju Miah, officer-in-charge of Motijheel police station, said they have already identified other persons involved in the crime. But he declined to disclose details for the sake of investigation.
In another incident on September 13, police said, the arrested four persons and two other absconding persons also picked up another person, Mohammad Azim, from near Adamjee Court and looted Tk 10 lakh in cash from him.
Following the arrests, Azim identified the detained persons as the members of the gang that looted his money.
Khandakar Mohiduddin, deputy commissioner of Motijheel Zone, told The Daily Star that the detained persons are the members of a gang who picked up people in the guise of law enforcers abusing their power and later looted valuables issuing threats.
A metropolitan magistrate granted the three-day remand for the two Rab personnel when Motijheel police produced them before the court.