All the arrested persons in connection with Baridhara torture cell have been produced before the court on Tuesday and they were later sent to jail.
Meanwhile, RAB is on hunt to nab prime accused Wazibullah Milon and other accused in the case, Deputy Director of RAB-1 said this to The New Nation on Tuesday night.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Monday unveiled a torture cell in the city’s high security Defence Officers Housing Society (DOHS) Baridhara and arrested 12 people, including a BCL leader of Dhaka University hall unit in this connection.
Responding to a question how such a torture cell could operate in such a secured residential area in the city, the RAB official said those who were conducting the cell for extortion of money from business people, did it in a highly sophisticated manner. He further said that the gang has been busted on the basis of information provided by some of the victims of the gang.
Several others, including the owner, have gone into hiding, he said, adding, RAB officials have seized some bottles of Phensedyl, bullets, CCTV cameras, some wooden sticks and a metal detector.
He said RAB was also looking for other accused on the basis of TV footage.
RAB screened footage of Wajibullah Milon and his associates holding a man captive and beating him up. The footage also showed Imran drinking from a bottle, which RAB said was Phensedyl. Wajibullah Milon had lived in Spain for 10 years and rented out the establishment six months back, said RAB officials
Of those arrested Omar Faruk, Al- Imran and Muntasir Rahman, are students of Dhaka University. Al-Imran is also a senior vice president of Jasimuddin Hall unit of pro- government student body Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL).
Earlier, RAB-1 told the media that the cell was operated on the second floor of a building at Road 7. It was used as a buying house of Samantha Corporation.
On the night of April 1, Harunur Rashid, a driver noticed that four officials of the garment factory he was working for were being late for long to return from the building, where they had gone. Rashid said he had gone to the second floor of the building to find them, and heard screams coming from there.
Rashid quickly alerted a patrol police of the area.
Saifuddin Milon with three others officials had gone to the flat to collect their due payment.
Saifuddin said Samantha House at times subcontracts with them and this time the buying house’s owner, Mohammad Wajibullah Milon, asked him to collect Tk 16 lakh owed to him.
Before entering the building, Saifuddin asked Rashid to call the police if they did not return in time.
Saifuddin said on March 25 he had witnessed another man being tortured inhumanely by the owner and thus took the precaution.
Police rescued Saifuddin and three others, and filed a general diary the same night.
RAB, however, came to know about the matter on Sunday, raided the building, and arrested 12 staff.
