Rab

2 suspects of Ctg jewellery shop robbery killed in ‘gunfight’

Two alleged robbers, who were involved in a jewellery shop robbery in February, are killed in a "gunfight" with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Mirsarai upazila of Chittagong.
18 April 2016, 03:41 AM

SC lawyer, 32 others charged

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday pressed charges against Supreme Court lawyer barrister Shakila Farzana and 32 others in a case filed for their links with Shaheed Hamja Brigade, a Chittagong-based militant group.
3 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Rab man killed in Uttara road crash

A Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) member is killed in a road accident in Dhaka’s Uttara area.
2 April 2016, 05:45 AM

'Criminal' killed in 'shootout'

An alleged criminal was killed in a "shootout" with Rapid Action Battalion at Tongi in Gazipur early yesterday.
25 March 2016, 18:00 PM

‘Criminal’ killed in ‘gunfight’ with Rab in Tongi

An alleged criminal is killed in a “gunfight” with the members of Rapid Action Battalion in Tongi river port area of Gazipur.
25 March 2016, 05:01 AM

7 'traffickers' held

The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday detained seven suspected traffickers on charges of illegally sending a Bangladeshi national to Libya and realising ransom from his family.
19 March 2016, 18:00 PM

HC bins Tareque Sayeed’s plea to scrap 7-murder trial

The High Court has rejected a plea filed by sacked Rab official Lt Col (retd) Tareque Sayeed Mohammad for scrapping the trial against him in Narayanganj seven-murder case.
15 March 2016, 06:05 AM

5 ‘JMB’ men held with large cache of explosives

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claim to arrest five militants including a district-level chief of a banned militant outfit and seize a large cache of explosives in Matuail of Dhaka.
13 March 2016, 16:30 PM

4 'robbers' killed in 'gunfight'

Four people were killed yesterday in what law enforcers described as a gunfight during a crackdown by the Rapid Action Battalion and Bangladesh Coast Guard on robbers in the Sundarbans.
10 March 2016, 18:00 PM

4 Sundarbans ‘robbers’ killed in ‘gunfight’

Four alleged robbers are killed in what lawmen describe as gunfight during a joint crackdown of Rapid Action Battalion and Bangladesh Coast Guard in the Sarankhola range of the Sundarbans under Bagerhat district.
10 March 2016, 04:19 AM

150 rare tortoises seized in Jessore

Members of Rapid Action Battalion seizes 150 tortoises of a rare species from Mandartala area in Sadar upazila of Jessore.
7 March 2016, 07:36 AM

3 JMB suspects held with bombs in Rajshahi

Three alleged members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh are detained with 23 bombs in Baghmara upazila of Rajshahi, says Rapid Action Battalion.
6 March 2016, 05:42 AM

Fraud gang busted

Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have busted a fraud gang and arrested its 14 members, including 12 foreigners, from different areas in the capital in the last two days.
4 March 2016, 18:00 PM

A claim hard to believe

The two Banasree siblings were killed by their own mother out of her “concerns about their future”
3 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Mother confesses killing her kids: Rab

Mother, Mahfuza Maleq alias Jesmin, confesses to killing her two minor children who were found dead in Dhaka’s Banasree area on February 29, according to Rapid Action Battalion.
3 March 2016, 05:49 AM

Parents, aunt brought in for quizzing

The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday picked up the parents and a relative of the two siblings, two days after their suspected murder in the capital's Banasree area.
2 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Accused killed in 'gunfight'

An accused in the Habiganj four-kid murder case was killed in a "gunfight" with the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the district's Chunarughat upazila early yesterday, eight days after law enforcers allegedly picked him up. The dead, Bachchu Mia, was a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver who had been traceless since being “detained by plainclothes officials” on February 17, according to his family members.
25 February 2016, 18:00 PM

4-kid murder: Accused Bachchu killed in ‘gunfight’

An accused in the Habiganj four-child murder case is killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Chunarughat upazila of the district this morning. The schoolboys had gone missing from Bahubal upazila on February 12 and were later found buried.
25 February 2016, 03:07 AM

Rab detains Rab man for 'extortion'

The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday detained one of its members and four others for allegedly extorting money from a man at Sonargaon in Narayanganj.
13 February 2016, 18:00 PM

2 'outlaws' killed in 'gunfight' in Kushtia

Two alleged outlaws were killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Kushtia Sadar upazila early yesterday.
11 February 2016, 18:00 PM