Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW
Vol. 5 Num 675 Sun. April 23, 2006  
   
Metropolitan


One robbed of pre-paid cards, cash worth Tk 5 lakh


Muggers stabbed a salesman of a private company and allegedly took away cell-phone recharge cards and cash worth Tk 5 lakh in Arambagh in the city yesterday.

Five to six muggers stopped the rickshaw of Arif Hossain, a salesman of People's Trading Company, in front of Arambagh Girls' High School and College at around 1:30pm and tried to take away his bag, when he was returning to his office at New Bailey Road after distributing cell phone card of a mobile phone operator.

As Arif tried to save the bag containing cash and recharge cards, the muggers stabbed him in the abdomen and back and snatched the bag.

He was later taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

Shahidul Haider, managing director of the company, told reporters at the DMCH that there was cash and recharge cards worth about Tk 5 lakh in the bag.