A youth has been arrested for allegedly setting fire to a RAB vehicle and assaulting a RAB officer during a protest centered around the Jalsa of the Ahmadiyya community in Panchagarh.
Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Noman Ahmed of RAB-1 said that he was arrested from Faridpur area of Sripur Upazila of Gazipur on Friday.
Arrested Abu Taher is the son of Sirajul Islam of Panchagarh.
ASP Noman Ahmed said that Taher was arrested in front of Mother’s Doa Hotel in Faridpur on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway based on secret information. At that time, a foreign pistol, a magazine and four bullets were recovered from him. After the Panchagarh incident, he came to Sreepur and went into hiding.