Our Correspondent :
Two policemen of Sitakunda Model Police Station were arrested on charge of mugging Tk 2.80 lakh from a driver, introducing themselves as “members of the Detective Branch” at Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram on Thursday night.
The arrested policemen Sub-inspector Saiful Alam and Constable Md Saiful
Islam were suspended while a two member-probe committee headed by Additional Superintendent of Police of Sitakunda Circle was formed to investigate the incident.
Chattogram district’s Superintendent of Police SM Rashidul Haque said the probe committee was asked to submit its findings within seven working days.
However, the looted Tk 2.80 lakh could not be recovered till now.
Police and local sources said the incident took place on December 20 but the incident came to light after victim Md Abu Jafor filed a case accusing five including the two policemen and three informants with Sitakunda police station on Thursday.
Local sources said driver Abu Jafor came to Sitakunda from Gazipur with the money to buy a pickup van on December 20 morning. However, he could not buy the pickup van and was waiting at Shyamoly Bus Counter of Sitakunda Sadar in the evening. Three police informants appeared before him and threatened to brand him as a “yaba peddler”.
The informants, later, called SI Saiful and constable Saiful. The two policemen rushed to the spot and introduced themselves as “DB police” and picked up the driver saying he was carrying yaba, according to sources.
The policemen even did an X-ray of Jafor but found nothing. Later, they took away the Tk 2.80 lakh from the driver and put him in a Dhaka-bound bus, threatening him not to disclose the matter to anyone.
Additional SP Ashraful Karim said they were trying to arrest the three other accused involved in the incident.
Two policemen of Sitakunda Model Police Station were arrested on charge of mugging Tk 2.80 lakh from a driver, introducing themselves as “members of the Detective Branch” at Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram on Thursday night.
The arrested policemen Sub-inspector Saiful Alam and Constable Md Saiful
Islam were suspended while a two member-probe committee headed by Additional Superintendent of Police of Sitakunda Circle was formed to investigate the incident.
Chattogram district’s Superintendent of Police SM Rashidul Haque said the probe committee was asked to submit its findings within seven working days.
However, the looted Tk 2.80 lakh could not be recovered till now.
Police and local sources said the incident took place on December 20 but the incident came to light after victim Md Abu Jafor filed a case accusing five including the two policemen and three informants with Sitakunda police station on Thursday.
Local sources said driver Abu Jafor came to Sitakunda from Gazipur with the money to buy a pickup van on December 20 morning. However, he could not buy the pickup van and was waiting at Shyamoly Bus Counter of Sitakunda Sadar in the evening. Three police informants appeared before him and threatened to brand him as a “yaba peddler”.
The informants, later, called SI Saiful and constable Saiful. The two policemen rushed to the spot and introduced themselves as “DB police” and picked up the driver saying he was carrying yaba, according to sources.
The policemen even did an X-ray of Jafor but found nothing. Later, they took away the Tk 2.80 lakh from the driver and put him in a Dhaka-bound bus, threatening him not to disclose the matter to anyone.
Additional SP Ashraful Karim said they were trying to arrest the three other accused involved in the incident.
