Our Correspondent :
Three members of Cox’s Bazar police were arrested on Monday in a case filed for robbing Tk three lakh from a woman at gunpoint after breaking into her house in the town.
The arrested are Sub-Inspector Nurul Huda, Constable Muminul Mamun and Constable Mamun Mollah of the city police outpost under Cox’s Bazar sadar police station.
Cox’s Bazar police’s Additional Superintendent Md Rafiqul Islam confirmed the matter and said a case was lodged under the Speedy Trial Act against all those involved in the incident.
The process of taking administrative action
against those involved is underway, he added.
According to the case statement, the trio wearing plain clothes mugged Tk three lakh from Rozina Khatun, wife of businessman Riaz Ahmed, a resident of Kutubdia area in the town.
Sensing the incident, locals captured one of the robbers and handed him over to Cox’s Bazar sadar police through the National Hotline number 999.
The victim’s husband Reaz Ahmed said, “My wife arranged the money [Tk3 lakh] from her relatives to run a gas-cylinder supply shop near the Asrayan Project in Khurushkhul union.”
On Monday, a group of five to six men in plain clothes forcefully entered the house, beat her up and snatched away the money from her at gunpoint, he said.
