4 muggers held at Kakrail bank
Staff Correspondent
Four men were arrested after a mob beating yesterday for trying to mug a bank customer at Kakrail hours after armed robbers looted Tk 44 thousand in cash and kinds from a Sutrapur house in the city.Witnesses said the staff and customers of Sonali Bank, Kakrail Branch caught the gang of four at around 12:30pm as one of them slashed a customer's bag containing Tk 500,000 inside the bank. Ramna police later arrested gang leader Abdur Rob alias Roba and his cohorts Robin Elahi Hannan, Moniruzzaman and Babu beaten black and blue. Describing the incident, acting branch manager Dilir Hossain said Abdul Kader, cashier of CGA Samabaya Rindan Samity Limited, drew Tk 5 lakh from the bank housed in the first floor of a building opposite to Rajmoni cinema hall. "When he was clearing the transaction with a bank official, one of the criminals slit the bag containing the money," he told The Daily Star. "Feeling the bag jerk, Kader looked around and saw a man putting a hand in the bag through the slit. He shouted in alarm, prompting the security guards to lock the collapsible gate of the branch," Dilir went on. He said the staff and customers inside caught the four, called in some policemen on patrol nearby and informed Ramna police. One of the gang members, Moniruzzaman, admitted that they entered the bank following a man, who had five bills of Tk 500 and five of Tk 100 in his pocket. "Going inside, we saw a man drawing bundles of Tk 500 notes and thought we have to take the risk of snatching the money," Monir confessed told The Daily Star at the police station. The officer-in-charge of Ramna Police Station said the gang led by Roba used to rob people of the cash they had drawn from the banks in Old Dhaka and Motijheel areas. Roba was once arrested in 2002. A case has been filed under the Speedy Trial Act against the gang. SUTRAPUR ROBBERY
At about 6:30am, a gang of four to five armed robbers entered the house of a businessman on Thakur Das Lane in Sutrapur. They held the inmates at gunpoint and looted Tk 12 thousand in cash, and jewellery and clothes worth around Tk 32 thousand. Police arrested a man named Mohammad Zahir on suspicion of involvement in the robbery. As of until 7:30pm, they could not recover any of the loot.
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