Four Arrested Over Police-Impersonation Robbery of 102 Bhori of Gold in Bogura's Shibganj, Tk 88 Lakh Recovered
The district Detective Branch (DB) of police has arrested four people over the robbery of 102 bhori 12 ana of gold, taken after a bus was stopped in Shibganj, Bogura, by men impersonating police. Tk 88 lakh from the sale of the looted gold was recovered from the arrested men.
The arrested men are Md Sadikul Islam and Md Alamgir Hossain of Dakshin Basudebpur in Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur, and Md Rabiul Islam of Bhimpur and Md Asaduzzaman Shahid of Balighata Bazar in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat.
Additional Superintendent of Police Atowar Rahman, the district police media spokesperson, gave the information at a press conference at the Bogura district DB office on Wednesday, October 28, at noon.
Atowar Rahman said that on October 5, gold trader Md Khairul Islam sent 10 gold bars of 24 carat from Galapatti in Bogura town to Joypurhat through his cousin Md Bappi Hossain.
When the bus reached the Uthli area on the way, three to four miscreants stopped it while impersonating police. They forced Bappi off the bus, beat him and snatched the gold bars and his mobile phone.
The miscreants then left the injured Bappi at an empty place at Gujiahat Mondalpara on Bala Road in Shibganj and fled, the press conference was told.
After the incident, Khairul Islam filed a written complaint with the superintendent of police and the officer-in-charge of Shibganj police station. On the basis of the complaint, a case was filed at Shibganj police station on October 27.
A DB team, supervised by the officer-in-charge of the district detective branch and led by Sub-Inspectors Md Jahangir Karib and Mohammad Fazlul Haque, then raided Panchagarh, Dinajpur and Joypurhat districts and arrested the four men.
Sadikul Islam was arrested first, from the Tetuliahat area of Panchagarh. Acting on his information, Alamgir Hossain was arrested from the Mahila College area of Hakimpur upazila in Dinajpur. A search of Alamgir's house then recovered Tk 29 lakh from the sale of the gold.
With information from the two arrested accused and the help of technology, Rabiul Islam and Asaduzzaman Shahid were arrested from the Bhimpur area of Joypurhat. Tk 18 lakh more was recovered from Sadikul's house and Tk 41 lakh from the office of Shahid's cattle farm. In total, the DB recovered Tk 88 lakh from the sale of the gold.
