Environment minister and publicity secretary of ruling Awami League Hasan Mahmud on Thursday defended the Rapid Action Battalion’s statement on killing of a Juba League leader in ‘crossfire’.
He said RAB’s statement on the killings of Juba League leader HM Jahidul Islam
Tarek, the prime suspect in the killing of another Juba League leader Reazul Haque Khan Milky, and a man, Shah Alam, seemed to be authentic.
‘RAB have been discharging its responsibility with efficiency in fighting terrorism since beginning. I want to keep faith in its statement,’ Hasan Mahmud said replying to reporters at the secretariat.
The two accused were killed in ‘crossfire’ with RAB at Kawla in the city on Wednesday night while they were in the custody of the elite force.
RAB officials said the ‘crossfire’ took place at a dark place on the Airport Road between Airport intersection and the Khilkhet bus stop at about 10 PM when a group of 12 to 14 miscreants led by Shah Alam tried to take away Tarek from RAB’s custody on the way to Gulshan police station from Fortune Hospital at Uttara.
Investigators said that the primary investigations found Tarek, the Dhaka city south Juba League joint secretary, and his associates shot and killed the organising secretary of the unit Reazul in front of Shoppers’ World, a shopping mall at Gulshan on early Tuesday.
RAB media and legal wing director, Wing Commander ATM Habibur Rahman, told New Age, ‘The armed miscreants in a white car and two motorbikes attacked the RAB team while it was taking Tarek to the police station and tried to snatch him triggering a gunfight.’
He refused to comment when asked whether the killing of the prime accused would hamper the investigation into the murder of Milky.
Responding to a question, AL deputy publicity secretary Ashim Kumar Ukil, present there, said that there was a story behind the story and it was the responsibility of the journalists to dig out that story.
Courtesy of New Age
