PBCP leader killed in 'shootout'
Staff Correspondent, Khulna
Regional commander of Purba Banglar Communist Party's (PBCP) Janajuddho faction Tapash Mistry was killed in a "shootout" between Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and his accomplices in Batiaghata upazila early yesterday.Tapash was arrested on March 31 at Shachibania village in the same upazila. According to Rab, the "shootout" took place at Daunia village at around 3:00am yesterday when the outlaws opened fire on the Rab personnel who took Tapash to the village. Rab members fired 28 shots to retaliate against the attack. One pipe-gun and two bullets were recovered from the spot. Tapash, 40, was sentenced to life for murdering Nirmal Mondol of the Altaf faction of PBCP in 1990. But he was released on bail by an order of the High Court. Rab says Tapash was directly involved in the murder of Bagerhat BNP leader MA Awal in December 2001, grocer Thakur and fish trader Anupama in June 2003 and Bolai alias Bolaram in January 2003. Apart from these murders, Tapash had been wanted in many other criminal cases filed with different police stations in Khulna and Bagerhat.
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