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20 ‘teen gang members’ held in Dhaka, RAB says

Police 2023-02-07, 11:19am

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Arrest



Dhaka, Feb 7 --Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 20 members of a “teen gang” along with sharp weapons from different areas of Dhaka on Monday.

Tipped off, a team of RAB-2 conducted drives in the capital’s Mohammadpur, Adabar, Hazaribagh, Bosila and Kawran Bazar areas on Monday night and arrested them along with sharp weapons, said Senior ASP Md Fazlul Haque, senior assistant director (Media) of RAB-2.

After primary interrogation, RAB came to know that they were involved in criminal activities including selling drugs, mugging, extortion and stealing.

The process is underway to take legal action against them, said the RAB official. - UNB