"RAB conducting routine operations to apprehend those responsible for thefts in several places, including the nation's capital Dhaka and numerous highways was"

In 2023, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) conducted raids around the nation, including Dhaka, and arrested 634 persons for allegedly participating in robberies.

However, Imran Khan, assistant superintendent of police (media wing) of RAB, stated that since 2018, the elite force members have been able to apprehend 3,166 robbers and prosecute them. These arrests have been made through regular operations aimed at apprehending organized robber gangs engaged in various robberies, including highway robberies in the nation's capital.

Furthermore, by conducting routine operations to apprehend those responsible for thefts in several places, including the nation's capital Dhaka and numerous highways, RAB was able to apprehend 634 persons in 2023.
Among the RAB's principal anti-robbery initiatives in 2023 are:

On January 1, 2023, an operation was carried out in the Nabinagar region of Ashulia, which is on the outskirts of the capital, by a joint team consisting of members of RAB-4 and RAB-11, with aid from the intelligence wing of Rab headquarters.

They detained 14 people during the drive, among them the 23-year-old leader of the organized inter-district bandit group, Alamgir. Recovered were two pick-up trucks, thirteen mobile sets, Tk 38,200, and other indigenous weaponry.

Eight people, including the renowned highway robber gang's boss, were detained by a RAB-11 operative team on March 16, 2023, as they were robbing the Char Bausia district of Ghazaria on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway.

Numerous indigenous weaponry kinds were found.A group from the elite force Battalion-7 carried out an operation on the highway next to the Faujdarhat Kalushah Shrine on April 8, 2023, and when they were getting ready to rob someone on the roadway, they apprehended ten thieves. Recovered were firearms, ammunition, and indigenous weaponry manufactured using indigenous technology.

While planning the heist in the Mohammadpur Beribandh neighborhood of the city on August 9, 2023, the RAB-2 raid apprehended five members of the dacoit organization armed with native weapons.

On October 24, 2023, a raid team from RAB-7 apprehended four members of a bandit gang that was planning a heist and found drugs and domestic weapons. At the time, one CNG that was used in the heist was taken.

During a drive in the Sadar region of the Brahmanbaria district on December 15, 2023, an operational squad of RAB-9 apprehended three suspected robbers and retrieved looted booty.

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