Acting on a tip off, members of the Cobra, a special police team, raided a house in Zafarabad in Mohammadpur at around 9:45pm Sunday.

Zahirul Islam alias 'Kutta' Zahir, a listed criminal of Mohammadpur Police Station, and his four accomplices opened fire on the Cobra members. Police fired back and arrested bullet-hit Zahir with a revolver and four bullets, while his operatives escaped arrest.

Zahir was admitted to National Institute of Traumatology & Orthopaedic Rehabilitation under police custody. He is accused of six criminal charges including two for murders and was a close aide of Galakata Mujibar, who was killed in a recent shootout with police.

In Gopibagh, a team of the Rab-2 led by Captain Anisur Rahman arrested Selim from the government railway colony at about 3:00am yesterday and seized a US-made pistol with two magazines and 13 bullets and a German-made revolver with seven bullets.

Earlier, the same team raided a scrap shop rear of the Uttara Bank in Motijheel and recovered a pipe gun and two bullets.

The Cobra, meanwhile, arrested Kala Jahangir's associates Shawkat and Babla from Kafrul in the city at around 2:00pm. Following their confessional information, the team later arrested Mamun from Parbata in Senpara in Mirpur and recovered a 9mm pistol with two bullets.