21 stolen auto-rickshaws recovered
Detective Branch (DB) of police in two separate drives recovered 21 stolen CNG-driven auto-rickshaws from different areas of Naogaon district and arrested a youth with home-made bombs from the city's Malibagh on Monday and early yesterday.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of DB of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Masudur Rahman said a gang led by Jamal, Alam, and Mizan negotiate with buyers as the middlemen to sell vehicles with fake papers in Naogaon.
Later, a team of DB from Dhaka conducted a raid on a garage in Naogaon Sadar and recovered the 21 stolen auto-rickshaws, he said.
DB officials requested the owners of CNG auto-rickshaws, who have lost their vehicles recently, to contact them and identify their vehicles.
The ADC said auto-rickshaw lifting gangs of the city and Narayanganj area used to steal vehicles from the drivers using many techniques. Later, they contact the owners and demand money from them to return the vehicles.
If the owners fail to meet their demand, they make fake documents of the vehicles and sell them.
In another drive, DB police arrested Azizul Haque Fakir, 28, from a house at West Malibagh. The police found machetes and the bombs in a car of his garage.
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