Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained three suspected terrorists with a large quantity of arms busting a terrorist hideout in the remote hilly area of Jungle Salimpur at Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram. The detainees were identified as Andha Jamal, 42, of Khulna, Siraj, 35, of Lalmonirhat and Chashma Mizan of Banshkhali. Read: 2 killed in JSS-UPDF gunfight in Rangamati Nurul Absar, assistant director (Media) of Rab-7, said acting on a tip off, a team of Rab-7 made the arrests conducting a drive at Salimpur jungle on Saturday night. Later, while conducting another drive to recover firearms from the hideout with the detainees, the gang of top terrorist Mashiur Rahman Prakash, a former AL leader now under custody, led by son Shiblu, hurled brick-bats and opened fire on them, forcing the Rab members to fire back. At that time, Mashiur's son Mohirul Hasan alias Shibli and several other terrorists managed to escape the spot. During the drive, Rab seized 10 firearms, a foreign pistol, a sharp knife, 22 rounds of ammunition, military gazettes, military uniforms, military binoculars and illegal coins from the terrorist hideout. Read: ‘Pirate’ killed in gunfight with Rab in Barguna Three cases were filed at Sitakunda police station in this regard, said the official. Earlier on December 27 last year, Rab arrested Mashiur Rahman, an accused in 26 cases, one of the top terrorists in Chittagong and a former Awami League leader, along with a number of firearms.

A woman and her associate were arrested from Chattogram on Thursday night for holding a lawyer hostage and attempted ransoming. The arrestees have been identified as Zobaida Sultana Hira alias Sonia and Imran. Sonia is the leader of a notorious fraud gang, Double Mooring Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammad Mohsin told the media Friday evening. Police said Sonia requested lawyer Habibur Rahman Azad to come to her place to help her out with a case. When he went there, three men nabbed him and demanded Tk 20,000. The also threatened to kill him if he did not give them the money. But Azad managed to call police. A team from Double Mooring Police Station raided the house on Thursday night and rescued the lawyer. Police say they are trying to arrest the other criminals associated with the gang. Sonia told police during interrogation that her gang was involved in at least 50 similar cases in the last 10 years, the OC said. She is accused in three criminal cases filed at various police stations in the port city.

Police filed a case against private mobile phone operator company Grameenphone with Hatirjheel police station on Tuesday for allegedly failing to protect subscribers’ information.