42 arrested as RAB conducts operation to dismantle broker gangs from 4 hospitals in Dhaka

Staff Correspondent

Publisted at 1:07 PM, Wed Feb 28th, 2024

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) conducted an operation in four hospitals in the capital's Sher-e-Bangla nagar area to dismantle the broker gangs that operate centring around them.

“In total, 42 brokers have been arrested from various hospitals in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar,” RAB-2 Deputy Commander Major Md Nazmullah Obaied told the Bangladesh First on Wednesday (28 February).

“We conducted the operations led by magistrates through mobile courts,” he added.

RAB also carried out raids in National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation.

The arrestees have been given a maximum of one month in jail and a Tk5,000 fine.

 

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