A draft of the Rab Law-2024 is being prepared to ensure accountability within the force, AKM Shahidur Rahman, director general of the Rapid Action Battalion told a meeting yesterday.
New uniform won’t fix a broken force
The Rab chief's apology for crimes committed must be followed by meaningful reforms.
But without political reforms, any change risks being superficial
Since its formation nearly two decades ago to curb organised crime and terrorism, the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has been dogged by serious allegations of human rights violations. Rights activists and critics accused it of morphing into a “government death squad” that operated with impunity.
False case victims and evidence manipulation underscore the need for accountability within our law enforcement agencies.
Instead, investigate and stop human rights violators
The message between the lines is that the US is keeping a very close eye on Bangladesh at the moment.
BTRC, RAB conducted a drive at Siddhirganj’s Kassaf Shopping Centre
Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have arrested two people for their involvement in creating fake websites identical to those of different local media outlets and circulating false and “anti-government” news through them.
They came to Bangladesh as football players or for business purposes. But after the end of their visa tenure, they formed a nexus and started amassing money by duping Bangladeshis using social media platforms.
Rapid Action Battalion-4 conducts a raid at Gonoshastha Kendra Hospital in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka based on information of “anomalies in its treatment process”.
Rab yesterday claimed to have arrested five frauds who duped people by circulating fake question papers of MBBS admission tests, and six question paper-seeking admission aspirants, from different places of the capital in the last two days.
A faction of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh had plotted to carry out subversive activities at the court building of Chattogram, Rab claimed after busting a “militant den” in the district's Mirsarai yesterday.
A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with Rab in Rajshahi early yesterday.
Three people, including two local leaders from the Awami League and the BNP, were caught red-handed while they were fleeing with over 2,500 litres of diesel they had just stolen from trains at Azimnagar Rail Station early yesterday, Rab said.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seize a total of 215 tonnes of open market sale (OMS) rice and wheat smuggled out from a government silo in Tejgaon and Krishi Market of Mohammadpur in separate drives since yesterday.
Owner of Faisal Ganj-e-Raj Paribahan is arrested in connection with the death of 13-month-old Akifa Yasmin, who was hit by a bus in Kushtia on August 28.
Rab yesterday detained five suspected gold smugglers with 200 gold bars weighing around 23kg from Moinot Ghat area in Dohar.
