The Jatrabari police are yet to arrest any of the armed muggers who, wearing identical T-shirts and riding motorbikes, shot an executive of a garment factory in broad daylight in Matuail and snatched Tk 36.8 lakh from him after he emerged from a bank.
'We have identified three mugger gangs in the capital. The RAB, Detective Branch and the police are trying to nab them and recover the money,' said the investigation officer, Mazharul Islam, who is the operation officer of Jatrabari thana.
The commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Benazir Ahmed, requested the city dwellers to ask for police escort while transferring large amounts of cash.
Khairul Hossain Chowdhury, 40, chief accountant of Masters' Garments and Fashion in Demra, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Tuesday with bullets in his legs.
Some six to eight muggers on motorbikes intercepted the car carrying Khairul and his two colleagues at Matuail Katherpool, said the police. They were returning to the factory at around 1:30pm after withdrawing the sum from Prime Bank's Motijheel branch.
Selim Reza, compliance officer of the company who was in the car, said, 'The muggers forced Humayun Kabir, our director, to get out of the car at gunpoint and held us hostage. When Khairul tried to resist the muggers, they shot his legs and grabbed the bag containing the money.'
None of the others, including the driver, were shot.
Humayun Kabir filed a case on Monday with Jatrabari thana against six unnamed muggers.
The DMP commissioner said in a press release on Tuesday that monetary transactions and transfers would increase in the Ramadan and on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr, and the DMP will provide police escort if any individual, bank or financial institution asks the police to provide protective escort.
He asked the seekers of police escort to contact the nearest thana or police control room. The telephone numbers of the control rooms are 9665407, 8616553, 8614300, 01713398311, 01191001122 and 999 (DMP)
Those asking for police escort will have to use their own vehicles, he said.
Source : New Age
