Rab nabs Ctg top terror 'Gittu' Nasir
Takes him out for arms search, recovers AK47 from Hathazari
Staff Correspondent, Ctg
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested 'Gittu' Nasir, a notorious Shibir cadre and a top kingpin of Chittagong underworld, in the capital's Jatrabari area on Monday night. Acting on his confession, a Rab team yesterday also recovered an AK47 combat rifle from Hathazari in the district yesterday evening. Tipped off, a special team of Rab-7 of Chittagong went to the capital Monday and arrested 'Gittu' with assistance from Rab-2 of Dhaka. He was brought to Rab-7 headquarters at Patenga here at around 8.30 yesterday morning. Sources said after primary interrogations, a Rab team at around 12.30pm yesterday set out along with Gittu for Fatikchhari and other parts of the district to recover firearms in possession of him and his gang. The law enforcers have still been hunting for the hidden firearms until filing of this report at 9:00pm last night. However Rab officials here maintained total silence regarding 'Gittu''s arrest. After his mentor Shibir Nasir had been arrested and jailed in April 1998, 'Gittu' Nasir, son of late Tofael Ahmad of Chalitatali in Panchlaish, became the number one linchpin of the underworld here. Sources said although officially accused in only six cases with different police stations, 'Gittu' was involved in most of the gruesome and sensational killings in the port city during the last seven/eight years. An Islami Chhatra Shibir cadre, Nasir was wanted in a case for killing eight people by brushfire on July 12, 2000 at Bahaddarhat, in which six Bangladesh Chhatra League activists, a microbus and an auto-rickshaw driver were killed. He is also an accused in the killing of Awami League leader and Panchlaish Ward Commissioner Liaqat Ali Khan on June 2, 1999. 'Gittu' and three more Shibir cadres were awarded death sentence for the gruesome murder of Nazirhat College Principal Gopal Krishna Muhuri in Jamal Khan on November 16, 2001. Among the other victims, 'Gittu' and his gang killed KEPZ Managing Director Golam Rabbani at Muradpur on April 11, 2004 and Shibir cadre Chhota Saiful, his brother Alamgir and sister Monwara Begum at Baluchhara near Chittagong Cantonment on June 30, 2004. 'Gittu' was also the alleged mastermind behind the looting of Tk 56 lakh of a textile industry at Kalurghat on April 1, 2004, sources said.
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