Members of Rapid Action Battalions (Rab) have arrested a top terrorist with his associate from the city’s Paltan area. The arrestees were identified as Md Mehedi Alam, 42, of Gopalganj and his associate Md Juboraj Khan, 32, of Tangail district. Read: 54 arrested in DMP’s anti-narcotics drives According to a media release a team of Rab-3, receiving specific allegations, made the arrest after conducting a drive in the city’s Paltan area early Friday. During the drive, Rab seized a foreign pistol, a magazine, 2 rounds of ammunition, 300 yaba pills and a number of weapons from their possession, said the release.

Members of Rapid Action Battalions (Rab) on Tuesday arrested a youth from the city’s Badda area for abducting a schoolgirl in Brahmanbaria district. The arrestee is Md Jasim Uddin, 25, son of Dhon Mia of Mondo village of Brahmanbaria. Read: Teen gangs to be reined in: Rab DG The intelligence unit of Rab headquarters and a team of Rab-2 arrested Jasim, the mastermind of the abduction, after conducting a drive in Badda area of the capital in the morning. On October 9, some people picked up an SSC examinee in a private car from Brahmanbaria Sadar Upazila. Later, the abductors took the victim to various places and dropped her in Suhilpur area of ​​Sadar upazila in the evening. Victim's mother filed a case against Jasim Uddin and five others at the Brahmanbaria Sadar Police Station under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act. Read: Woman gang-raped after abduction from rail station in Ullapara A video of the incident went viral social media and Rab launched a drive to arrest those involved in the incident. Jasim Uddin went into hiding in the house of a relative in Badda area. The arrestee reportedly confessed that he had been stalking the girl for several days before abduction.