 Accused killed in Rab 'encounter'
Prime accused in journalist Harun-or-Rashid murder case and a regional leader of outlawed PBCP (Janajuddho) Rafiqul Islam Baby was killed in an 'encounter' between members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and his accomplices at around 3:30am yesterday at Madhya-danga in Daulatpur of Khulna city. Baby, 38, was arrested on Monday evening at Jugnipasha village under Phultala upazila of Khulna district. | Hummmm, arrested on Monday, dead on Tuesday in an 'encounter'. Time sure flies when you're having your fingernails pulled out. |
Two Rab men sustained bullet injury during the 15-minute encounter, | "Ouch, dammit Raj! Watch where those hot shell casings eject, you just hit me and Officer Bob." |
..a Rab press release said, adding that a pipe gun, a six-shooter gun, five bullets and two shells of used bullets were seized from the spot. | Those would be the two bullets in Baby's head |
Baby, who had been absconding for long, was one of the three charge-sheeted accused in the murder case of Shaikh Harun-or-Rashid, a reporter of the Dainik Purbanchal, who was gunned down on March 2 in 2002 at Mujgunni in Khalishpur under Khulna city. | Gunning down reporters is one reason this is an 'encounter', not a 'execution'. |
The slain outlaw was also wanted in 15 criminal cases including those for murders and extortion recorded with Daula-tpur Police Station since 1992.
The judge of Khulna Divi-sional Special Trial Tribunal acquitted the three accused in journalist Harun murder case on February 7 this year. |