Rapid Action Battalion has arrested DB Inspector Arafat Hossain over the incident of piling up and torching of bodies near Ashulia Police Station during the mass student movement on August 5.
DB Inspector Arafat Hossain, who was arrested on Thursday night by RAB for his alleged involvement in burning bodies after piling them up on a van near Ashulia Police Station, was handed over to Ashulia police on Friday. RAB arrested him from Aftabnagar in the capital on Thursday night.
RAB said when the video of the incident came to light, they launched a shadow investigation. After intelligence monitoring, Arafat was arrested from Aftabnagar. At first, he was brought at RAB-4 office and, later handed over to Ashulia Police Station.
Arafat went into hiding after a video showing bodies being burnt on a van at Ashulia went viral on social media.
It is learnt that on the day of Sheikh Hasina led government's fall on August 5 last, seven students' bullet-ridden bodies were lying here and there adjacent to the wall of Islam Polymars and Plastizers Ltd officers' family quarters at Ashulia. Afterward police personnel piled up the bodies on a van.
Then the bodies were put on board a pick-up parked at Ashulia Police Station. Later, police set ablaze the pick-up which charred the bodies. A one minute 14 seconds long video clip of the incident went viral on social media.
One of the people seen on the video clip wearing vests and helmets was Dhaka North DB police Investigation Officer Arafat Hossain. When the matter came to light, Arafat along with others went into hiding.
