BSS
  09 Feb 2022, 21:04

3 more robbers held over Uttara bus-robbery

   DHAKA, Feb 9, 2022 (BSS) - Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)'s

Detective Brunch (Tejgaon zone) has arrested three more robbers in
connection with a bus-robbery held on the night of January 20 in front
of Abdullahpur Petrol Pump under Uttara West Police Station here.

   The arrested are: Md Sumon Islam, Md Kabir Hossain and Md Shahin Alam.

   Shahadat Hossain Suma, an additional deputy commissioner (DB) of
Tejgaon Division Police, confirmed the matter today saying that the
detectives arrested them in separate raids in Dhaka and Gazipur
districts on Tuesday night.

   So far, 19 robbers have been arrested in this regard.

  The robbery happened with Shafiqul Islam, a resident physician at a
Tangail hospital, and his friend on a moving bus on the night of
January 20.

   They rode on the bus at Abdullahpur in Dhaka for traveling to Tangail.

   As a robbery case was later filed with Uttara West police station,
the Tejgaon zonal team started investigation into the case and
arrested 16 members of the gang involved in the robbery and sent them
to the court.

   During the preliminary interrogation, the detainees confessed about
the bus robbery.

  Three arrested have been sent to the court today in a case filed
with Uttara West Police Station, law enforcement sources said.