Six arrested in Tarash cattle theft case in Sirajganj, two cows recovered
The Special Response Battalion (SRB)-12 has arrested six people in connection with the theft of three cows from a cowshed in Tarash, Sirajganj, after its lock was cut. Two of the stolen cows have been recovered based on information given by the arrested men.
The information was disclosed on Thursday (12 November) at 10am in a press release signed by SRB-12 operations officer Assistant Superintendent of Police Dhiman Kumar Mondal. According to the release, the arrests were made through intelligence surveillance and separate drives about five months after the incident.
According to the press release, two separate drives were carried out on Wednesday morning and afternoon. One drive was conducted in front of a mosque near Paikpara Bazar in Sirajganj Sadar upazila, and the other in front of the Sikdar petrol pump beside the Dhaka-Bogura highway at Chandaikona in Raiganj upazila.
The arrested men are Jahurul Islam (41) of Shaliagari village and Farman Ali (38) of Mangalbaria village in Tarash upazila, Rashedul Islam (36) of Anshgram village in Sherpur upazila of Bogura, Nannu Sardar (48) of Gangamati village in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali, Anas (20) of Konokanda village in Bakshiganj upazila of Jamalpur, and Sohag (30) of Khillatajpur village in Gouripur upazila of Mymensingh.
According to the case details, unidentified thieves cut the lock of Md Taybur Rahman Ripon’s cowshed in Tarash at around 2am on 19 June and stole three cows. They later fled with the cows in a mini truck. Taybur Rahman Ripon filed a theft case with Tarash police station over the incident.
SRB-12 said that, under the direction of its commanding officer and based on intelligence surveillance, an operational team of its Sadar company conducted two separate drives on Wednesday and arrested the six men identified during the investigation of the case.
Later, based on information given by the arrested men, two of the stolen cows were recovered from the courtyard of a man named Azad at Banbaria Adarsha Gram in Sadar upazila and from the cowshed of a man named Nurnabi at Meghai Bhadraghat Satashpara in Kamarkhanda upazila.
After completing legal procedures, the arrested men were handed over to Tarash police station along with the recovered cows, SRB-12 said.
