Sacked Tarek Sayeed, Arif Hossain and other RAB personnel were involved in the Narayanganj seven-murder incident, a RAB investigation report said.
A probe team, led by Additional Director General (administration) Aftab Uddin, handed over its investigation report to the attorney general’s office, blamed the three sacked RAB 11 officials for the abductions and killings, saying they acted on their own.
The probe report was submitted to the HC bench of Justice Md Rezaul Haque and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore on Wednesday.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam informed the media in a press briefing.
He said: “The report stated that Tarek Sayeed and Arif Hossain were involved in the whole process, the abduction and dumping the bodies in Shitalakkhya River.”
The RAB report also names 18 other persons, all of them deputed to Narayanganj-based RAB-11, involved in the killings.
According to the report, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) headquarters and intelligence wing tried to rescue the victims alive but failed because RAB 11 chief, Lt Col Tareq Sayeed Mohammad, concealed information from the headquarters.
“On April 28, around 1:30pm, RAB intelligence, discovered that Lt Col Tareq Sayeed Mohammad, Maj Arif Hossain and Lt Commander SM Masud Rana along with their sub-ordinate RAB members did it,” the report reads.
However, in confessional statements before a Narayanganj court made after their arrests, the trio repeatedly said they committed the crime because it was difficult to disobey an order that came from such a high official.
On April 27, Narayanganj panel mayor Nazrul Islam and his four associates, and senior lawyer Chandan Sarker and his driver were abducted and killed allegedly by RAB 11 personnel. Their bodies were later found floating in Shitalakhya River.
The three sacked RAB officials – Lt Col Tareq Sayeed Mohammad, Maj Arif Hossain and Lt Commander SM Masud Rana – are facing trials for the abductions and killings.
