3 jewellers arrested in city

10 May 2010, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

Detectives arrested a jewellery shop owner and his two employees at Tanti Bazar in the city on Sunday night on charges of buying stolen gold ornaments from 'dope gang' members. The gang looted the ornaments from the Banani residence of former IGP AK Khandaker after doping a member of his family on February 10. Earlier, four dope gang members, including two women, were arrested in this connection on Saturday. All the seven arrestees were produced before a Dhaka court with a remand prayer yesterday, but the court sent them to jail. A team of detectives led by Assistant Commissioner (AC) Obaidul Haque yesterday arrested Kanchan Akand, 24, owner of Adi Kartik Jewellers, his employees -- Shaymal Sarker, 24, and Bimal Ghosh, 33, -- on Sunday night. The police arrested the four gang members, Amena Begum, 35, and her husband Bashir alias Motaleb from a house in the city's Gendaria, and Rozina Begum, 30, and her husband Badsha Mian from Gaibandha. A revolver, Tk 50,000 and 550 sedative tablets were also recovered from Amena's possession, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Mollah Nazrul Islam said. Amena Begum, who started working as a domestic help at former IGP AK Khandaker's house, mixed sedatives in tea to make his daughter-in-law unconscious at his Banani residence on February 10. Later, Amena made off with 30 tolas of gold ornaments, Tk 1.5 lakh and one cellphone, the ADC said. No other family members were in the house at that time, he added. Amena and her husband admitted to the police that they along with her sister Rozina and Badsha committed the looting and then sold the gold ornaments to Adi Kartik Jewellers. The ADC said the gang has been active since 1993 and they have engaged women in such crimes.