Robbery in railway GM's Ctg bungalow
A ransacked room following the overnight robbery at the bungalow of Bangladesh Railway (east zone) general manger near Central Railway Building in Chittagong city yesterday.Photo: STAR
A gang of armed robbers looted cash and valuables from the bungalow of Bangladesh Railway's GM in Chittagong early yesterday. Some 30 -35 robbers entered the bungalow of Yusuf Ali Mridha, general manager (GM) of railway (East Zone), behind Central Railway Building after tying up four security guards with trees around 3:30am at gunpoint, said Abul Kalam Azad, OC of Kotwali Police Station. They cut the grill of the back door and looted laptops, mobile phone sets, and some cash, said sources. Nine officers used to reside in five rooms while their family lived in Dhaka. Seven officers, including Yusuf, were not present during the robbery. Contacted, Yusuf who was in Dhaka, said there might be some other reasons behind the robbery. Yusuf said a recruitment process is going on and many requests were made against the posts. “But as a general manager it is not possible for me to satisfy everyone. Some who are dissatisfied might be involved,” he said. Yusuf said one laptop, one mobile phone set and Tk 2,000 were also looted from his room. SM Liaquat Ali, additional chief engineer (track), present during the robbery, said he awoke when they started breaking the door of his room (room no 4). All of a sudden, six people entered the room and looked for Yusuf and asked him for the keys of the almirah at gunpoint, he added. “As I gave it (the key) to them, they opened the almirah and broke the suitcase kept there,” he said adding that the robbers took away cash worth Tk 2 lakh, one camera, two Nokia N70 mobile phone sets. Liaquat said they tied him up and ransacked the room. The robbers also ransacked two other rooms of the bungalow and took away three laptops, one printer and two cell phone sets. Chief Accounts Officer of the railway Gaura Chandra Roy, present in his room during the robbery, could not ascertain anything as the robbers did not enter his room, said police. Police visited the spot in the morning while a CID team also started investigation into the robbery incident. CID Inspector Ibrahim said they collected some evidence, but could not collect any fingerprints. SI Alamgir Hossain said they are trying to arrest the robbers to recover the valuables and money. “We suspect they are an organised and professional gang,” he said.
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