10 members of 'dope gang' held
Detective Branch of police arrested 10 people, who were alleged members of a gang that doped and then robbed people of their belongings, in two separate drives in the capital on Thursday.
A DB team led by Dhaka Metropolitan Police Senior Assistant Commissioner Nasir Uddin Khan carried out the drives at Darussalam and Shah Ali area of Mirpur 1 around 9:30pm and made the arrests, said police.
“We had information that the arrestees were preparing to dope and rob people in Dhaka-bound buses and trains in guise of passengers or as hawkers of herbal medicine,” said AC Nasir.
Police also recovered some fake herbal products mixed with sedatives, he said, adding that several teams of detectives were out on the lookout for such gangs.
The gang had confessed that, with the onset of the holy month of Ramadan, they were planning to rob people by making them unconscious with doped Iftar food items, added AC Nasir.
Police filed two separate cases with Darussalam and Shah Ali police stations in this connection.
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