[Bangla Daily Star] A man jumped from the third floor of a residential hotel and died on the spot during a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) drive early yesterday.
| The deceased was identified as Anwar Hossain, 28, an alleged sex-workers' agent in the hotel |
The deceased was identified as Anwar Hossain, 28, an alleged sex-workers' agent in the hotel, Lodge Inn, at Kakoli in Gulshan.
Officer-in-charge (OC) Kamal Uddin of Gulshan Police Station said Anwar jumped to the rail lines behind the hotel and died on the spot while a team of Rab-1 was conducting drives at the hotel and another one, Dhaka Inn, adjacent to it around 1:00am.
The Rab team, on a tip off, raided the hotels and arrested 12 men and nine women allegedly involved in unsocial activities there.
| Unsocial activities are what the Rab hate the most. Except for the Biplobi communists, who are entirely too social... |
The OC said on information they recovered Anwar's body from the rail lines and sent it to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy. |