Phone salesman mugged of Tk 35 lakh in Rajshahi

A mobile phone sales representative was mugged in broad daylight in Rajshahi city's New Market area yesterday morning while he was going to deposit Tk 35 lakh cash at a bank.

Md Faisal, the sales representative of Vivo Mobile Phone was detained for interrogation as the police suspected he himself might be involved with the mugging, Nibaran Chandra Burman, OC of Boalia police station said.

The incident occurred at 11:45am, minutes after Faisal got out of the dealer's shop carrying the money in a bag over his shoulder.

At that time, a friend of the dealer, Badsha, was accompanying Faisal. He was carrying another bag containing Tk 3 lakh in cash from the same mobile phone dealer for depositing the money at the same bank.

The police gathered a video footage of the incident and said, it shows that two unidentified muggers in a motorcycle took the bag from Faisal's shoulder while passing them slowly as they were walking towards a nearby bank through a busy road.

"The victim of mugging gave misleading information and his statement contradicts our initial inquiry into the incident," the OC said.

When the police reached the scene, the victim showed the spot of occurrence which later turned out to be over 100 yards from the actual spot, the OC added.

Faisal was carrying a huge amount of money without taking any precautionary measure and he was walking along the middle of the road avoiding the footpath, the OC claimed.

The muggers did not have a hard time taking the arms, with no struggle, the OC said.

"After the mugging, Faisal didn't try to stop the muggers and rather, he stopped walking and called the dealer to report the mugging," the OC said, "He made the call within three minutes of stepping out of the dealer's shop."

"We shall share findings of our primary inquiry with the dealer before he files a case," said the OC Nibaran Chandra Burman adding that the police deployed a separate team to identify the muggers and arrest them.