When Baten was serving as the Superintendent of Police of Rangamati, 132 homes were burned down in the area in an arson attack on 22 April 2008.[4] He was the Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, in charge of the Ramna Division, in 2015.[5] He was then transferred to the Detective Branch.[6] He was promoted to Deputy Inspector General of Police in 2018.[7]
In 2019, Baten was an additional commissioner of the Detective Branch.[8] He detained Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed for making fake vaccine certificates during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh.[9] In November 2020, four Islamist extremists were detained by Detective Branch officers serving under his command in Sherpur Upazila, Bogura District.[10]
Baten held the post of Deputy Inspector General of Rangpur Range when Begum Rokeya University student Abu Sayed was killed in police firing during the quota reform movement.[11] After the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government, the Ministry of Home Affairs sent him into retirement, along with Md. Moniruzzaman, under Section 45 of the Public Service Act, 2018.[11] In September 2024, the Anti-Corruption Commission began an investigation against him.[12] He was made an accused in the case over the murder of Abu Sayeed.[13][14]
In July 2025, a court in Dhaka issued a travel ban on Baten and his wife following a petition by the Anti-Corruption Commission, which was investigating him.[15] Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib ordered the government also to block his and his wife's National Identity Cards.[16]