The Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Friday detained four Rapid Action Battalion officials for their alleged involvement in abduction of a man and extorting money from his family members in Dhaka.
The metropolitan police commissioner Shafiqul Islam confirmed the detention of the four RAB personnel.
Three of them are from the army while the other is from the air force but neither the police nor the RAB officials gave any details about them.
The metropolitan police commissioner said that the four arrested ones were handed over to their respective forces’ authorities after filing a case with Hatirjheel police station.
The RAB spokesperson commander Khandaker Al Moyeen said that they were examining whether the detained ones were really involved in committing the crime.
Inter Services Public Relation Directorate director lieutenant colonel Abdullah Ibn Zaid could not be reached after multiple attempts.
The case lodged in this connection with the Hatirjheel police station by the victim’s sister Rayana Hossain, 20, of Hatirjheel in Dhaka did not mention any name as accused.
The complainant alleged that his brother Tamzid Hossain, 27, went out of their house at about 9:00am on Thursday for his office in Uttara.
At about 12:00pm on the day, she alleged, a man called her from an unknown number and introduced him as a senior RAB official.
The caller informed her that Tamzid was in the RAB custody and advised her not to share the matter with any police station or the detective branch of police, the case statement said.
She alleged that the caller warned that Tamzid would be killed in ‘crossfire’ if they inform the matter to the police.
She alleged that the caller who identified themselves as senior RAB official demanded Tk 2 crore for releasing Tamzid and, at last, the negotiation stood at Tk 12 lakh.
The DMP commissioner told reporters that the family arranged the money and police held two of the detained ones along with the money on a CNG-run auto rickshaw.
He said that six people were involved in the crime.
Of the six, the police investigators said, three were from the army, one each from the air force and the Border Guard Bangladesh and the remaining one was a civilian.
The DMP officials said that they took the complainant to the Dhaka’s Metropolitan Judge Court for recording of her statement.
