Seven members of the Rapid Action Battalion have been named in a case filed over the alleged abduction and disappearance of a youth from Godagari upazila in Rajshahi in 2016.
Nais Khatun, 30, wife of victim Ismail Hossain of Diar Manichar village in the upazila, filed the lawsuit with Godagari upazila cognisance court on Wednesday noon. However, the judge recorded the lawsuit as a case on Thursday morning.
鈥楯udge Md Liton Hossain took cognisance of the case and asked the Criminal Investigation Department of Police to investigate and submit a report within 24 November,鈥� said plaintiff鈥檚 lawyer Md Mahmudur Rahman Rumon.
The accused are naik subedar Shahinur Rahman, sub-inspectors Debabrata Majumder and Dulal Mia, assistant sub-inspector Kamal Hossain, lance naik Mahinur Khatun, sepoy Kohinur Begum, and constable Monirul Islam of the then RAB-5 railway colony camp.
According to the case statement, the accused forcibly picked up gold trader Islami Hossain in their official vehicle from Daingpara intersection of Godagari upazila while he was returning home at 9:30pm on September 6 in 2016.
Ismail鈥檚 brother Mohammad Yousuf Ali told 抖阴精品 that they then rushed to the RAB-5 headquarters and met with the then commander, but the latter denied picking up his brother.
鈥楢fter Ismail had contacted us using another person鈥檚 mobile phone three days later and informed us that he was in RAB-5 custody, we then again went to the RAB-5 headquarters and met with the commander, and provided him with the call recording of my brother. But the official attempted to make us understand that they did not pick up Ismail,鈥� he added.
Yousuf Ali said that they also met with the unit commander several times but the latter did not give any reasonable answer to their queries.
Nais Khatun said that, along with her husband, the elite force members also detained and interrogated two more people inside RAB-5 railway colony camp.
鈥楾he two others, who were later shown arrested in a drug case and came out from jail on bail, saw my husband inside the RAB camp. I have named them as the witnesses in the case鈥�, she said.
Nais feared that the RAB members killed her husband and disappeared the body.
鈥楩or so long we could not file a case in fear of RAB. Due to a change in the country鈥檚 context, we went to the local police station but the officials there suggested that we file a case with the court,鈥� she added.
