13 robbers held in 3 districts

28 October 2009, 17:00 PM

Star National Desk

Thirteen robbers were arrested in three districts on Tuesday. Of them, four were arrested in Mirzapur upazila in Tangail, four in Dewanganj upazila of Jamalpur and five others in Daudkandi upazila of Comilla. Police also recovered several weapons from the robbers. Our Tangail Correspondent reports: Acting on a tip-off, a team of police led by additional police superintendent (circle) Mizanur Rahman raided a Tangail bound passenger bus at Gorai police check post on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Mirzapur upazila at around 10:30pm. The team arrested four highway robbers from the bus sitting in guise of passengers with several lethal weapons. The arrested robbers were identified as Jasim,30, of Patuakhali, Dulal,40, of Gazipur, Jamaluddin,25, of Madaripur and Swapan, 24, of Habiganj. In Jamalpur, police on Tuesday arrested four robbers along with a firearm, bullets and a sharp weapon in connection with a number of robberies committed in Dewanganj upazila. The arrestees are Abdus Sattar of Bhelmari village, Alam of Shsharibari in the upazila, Nurul Islam Nuru, 25, ofNaldanga village in Sarishabari upazila and Al Amin, 30, of Rupsha village in Sirajganj district. Acting on a secret information, police raided a fish market in Dewanganj municipal area and arrested Sattar at about 12 noon. Later, Sattar, as per instruction of police, called his four accomplices over cell phone to come to the local cinema hall area. When they came to the spot, plainclothes policemen arrested three of them at about 2pm while another managed to flee. As per their confessional statements, police came to Shashariabari village along with Alam and recovered a cut rifle, eight bullets and a sharp weapon from Alam's grandmother's house. Another report from Comilla adds: Police arrested five suspected robbers from a micro-bus on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at Patia village in Daudkandi upazila on Tuesday night. The arrestees were identified as Alamgir, 25, of Gandhamati village, driver Mahbubur Rahman, 32, of Sananda village in Sadar Dakkhin upazila, Imran, 23, of Gabindapur village, Mahbub Hossain of Dhanpur village in Sadar upazila and Tapash Kumar, 38, of Comilla town. Police said they arrested the five along with two light guns (LGs).