UPDF office searched in Ghagra

chtnews.com
News No. 167/2009, October 29, 2009

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion searched the Ghagra office of the United Peoples’ Democratic Front (UPDF) in Rangamati last night.

UPDF sources told chtnews.com that the RAB members had come in two jeeps at midnight and searched for what they said firearms in the office.

However, they found nothing incriminating.

There were three UPDF members in the office at the time, but the RAB did not harm any of them.

“When they (RAB) said there are firearms in the office, we asked them to check, and they turned the office upside down in the name of a search” Bitu Chakma, one of the UPDF members present during the search, said.

It needs to be mentioned that in last September, the Ghagra office of the UPDF had come under attack by JSS (Santu) members. The JSS men destroyed the office furnisher, the computer and other office materials in the presence of the security personnel during the said attack.