Staff Reporter:

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-12 in a drive on Monday evening arrested an alleged dacoit leader from Sayedabad Rehabilitation centre in Sirajganj Sadar upazila.
The arrested is Ali Ashraf, 37, son of late Abul Hossain of the Sayedabad Punorbason (rehabilitation) area in the upazila.
Deepankar Ghosh, Additional Superintendent of Police and also Commander of RAB-12 Sadar Company Command confirmed the matter to the media through a press release issued on Tuesday.
Tipped-off that, the arrested Ashraf and his cohorts were taking preparation to commit a dacoity. RAB forces conducted raid at his house and arrested him along with some equipments of dacoity. But, rest of his associates managed to flee the scene.
Later, the arrestee was handed over to Sirajganj Sadar thana, where a case was also lodged in this connection.