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Riddles in Rab story

TV news shocks families of 4 arrested over 'plot to kill 3 docs'; they were picked up by Rab 19 days ago, families insist

Kailash Sarkar and Chaitanya Chandra Halder
The Rapid Action Battalion claims to have arrested six people on Sunday on charges of plotting to kill three doctors, but the families offourofthe arrestees allege they were kidnapped by the law enforcers on August 13.
The father of an arrestee even filed a case with Savar police
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in this regard on August 17. He mentioned that his son Taufiqul Islam Tushar along with three of his friends was kidnapped by unknown people from a roadside tea stall in the evening of August 13.
The missing incident was also reported in various print and electronic media.
Several hundred people went missing or fell victim to "forced disappearance" in the last few years. Members of law enforcers have been blamed for many such disappearances.
Talking to The Daily Star, members of the four families identically claimed the kidnappers appeared to be law enforcers as they had handcuffs. The incident happened in front of a big crowd, many of whom later
described the incident to them.
The family members thought their dear ones were killed or gone forever. But the television news on Rab's arrest of six "plotters" alerted them that they were still alive and subject to injustice by the law enforcers.
The issue surfaced at the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka yesterday when the six arrestees were brought in by the Mirpur police seeking 10-day remand for each of them. The family members of the four also thronged there to challenge the charge brought against them.
If their allegation is true that the Rab picked them up 19 days ago, then the elite force has blatantly violated the law and the constitution
by not producing them before the court within 24 hours of the arrest.
The elite force on September 3 held a press briefing at its headquarters. Newspersons present were told that dentist Dr Md Kamrul Hassan, 29, a member of pro-BNP Doctors' Association of Bangladesh (DAB), Mithu alias Prasanta, 22, Towfiqul Islam Tushar, 23, a manager of Satata Enterprise in Savar, Joynal Abedin, 25, Md Mostafa, 26, and Mohorom Ali, 35, a driver and owner of a mini-bus of Village Line Paribahan, were arrested at 11:30pm the previous day with a pistol, three bullets and a sharp weapon in their possession.
At the briefing, Rab Director Commander M Sohail claimed that they had
foiled through the arrests a bid to "kill” three doctors over an internal feud between two groups of DAB.
Among them, dentist Dr Hassan had "hired” the other five to kill three DAB doctors, he claimed.
The Rab handed the six over to Mirpur police on Monday night and filed an arms case.
The court granted three-day remand for Mithu and Joynal, while Kamrul, Tushar, Mostafa and Mohorom Ali were sent to jail.
In the dock, Mithu, Tushar, Mostofa and Mohorom told The Daily Star that during their confinement, they were kept blindfolded all the time and so they could not see where they were.
The four youths also said
they never knew and nor saw Dr Kamrul before. Kamrul also said he did not know the four.
Talking to The Daily Star on the court premises, Tushar's father Tajul Islam said, "My son and his three friends were kidnapped when they were having tea.
Jannatul Ferdous, wife of Mithu, said she got married with Mithu three years ago and that her husband was not involved in any criminal activities.
Joynal's mother Mamtaj Begum said her son was kidnapped when he had gone to Savar at his maternal uncle's house from their Mirpur house.
Contacted, Lt Col Ziaul Hasan, director of Intelligence Wing of Rab, termed false all the allegations made by those four
youths and their families.
Lt Col Ziaul also said whenever any criminal is arrested, he claims to be innocent.
Asked about the detention 19 days ago and filing of a case with Savar police, Ziaul said, "Sensing that Rab members were following them, the six went into hiding without informing their families."
He claimed that they did not arrest any of them before September 2 and did not keep them illegally confined violating the laws.
Despite repeated attempts for his comment about the case and their findings in this connection, the officer-in-charge of Savar police could not be reached over the phone.