Listed criminal held

7 April 2010, 18:00 PM

A Correspondent, Benapole

Detectives arrested an alleged notorious criminal of the city's Rampura area from his hideout at a bordering village in Sharsha, Jessore, yesterday evening. The arrestee, Shahjada alias Saju, is an accused in at least 19 cases filed with different police stations in the city. He had been staying in village Samriddha Kathi for the last several months to evade capture. A team of detective branch of police picked up Shahjada at around 7:00pm from the house of one Pintu. DB officials said they caught the listed criminal on secret information. Shahjada, 28, is the ringleader of a criminal gang involved in extortion, tender manipulation and in illegal business of garments wastage, the police said. He was being taken to Dhaka, the DB officials said.