25, 2010 a group of men in a microbus abducted Mohammad Chowdhury Alam, a BNP city councillor in Dhaka. According to Odhikar, police foiled a previous attempt to abduct Alam earlier that month and detained the abductors. Odhikar’s report stated that in detention the abductors identified themselves as agents of the RAB and subsequently were released. Several days later, a group of men in plainclothes pulled Alam from his car and placed him in a microbus. Both Odhikar and his family believed that the same group was involved in both the incidents.81 Alam’s location is yet to be known. According to the Shamakal, in June 2010 a group of nine persons identifying themselves as officers of the RAB arrested Jahir Raihan Hiron at his house in Dhaka. The individuals wore uniforms and carried RAB identity cards. The group told Hiron and his family that he was being taken to the Dhanmondi Police Station for questioning. His whereabouts were unknown since then. Equality before the Law and Non-Discrimination: The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) – a case of discrimination on the basis of ethnic origin: 82 UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, published on the IRIN website: <http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93640>. The UNHCR puts the number at around 1.5 % See, <http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/topic,463af2212,469f2ca62,49749d5841,0. html>. 83 According to the census report of 1991. 66