Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested five people including Adabar thana unit Jubo Dal Joint Convenor Md Rakib Sheikh from Dhaka’s Keraniganj and Mohammadpur areas on Sunday.
The other arrestees are Md. Masum, 32, Md Alamgir, 38, Md. Rasel, 38, Md. Jahangir Alam, 55.
Of them, Rakib and Jahangir were arrested from Keraniganj and the rest from Mohammadpur area.
According to a RAB media release signed by Shihab Karim, senior assistant superintendent of police at the RAB headquarters (media wing), Rakib was the mastermind of all incidents of arsons on vehicles, vandalisms, subversive activities carried out in the capital’s Mohammadpur, Adabar, Dhanmondi and New Market areas and an accused of eight cases filed with several police stations in Dhaka.
Besides, Masum, Alamgir, Rasel, Jahangir led by Jubo Dal leader Rakib carried out destructive acts in the capital’s Mohammadpur, Adabar during the blockade and hartal for the past few days, the release said.
Being tipped-off, the members of the elite force conducted drives in the Mohammadpur and Keraniganj areas on Sunday and were able to detain them.
Legal processes are underway to file cases against them with the concerned police stations, it read.