Staff Reporter :
Detective Branch of Police in a drive detained four persons, including a sacked army personnel, when they were extorting money from people using fake identities of Detective Branch (DB) of Police in the city’s Moghbazar Wireless Gate area on Saturday night.
The detained persons have been identified as suspended army personnel Shafiqul Islam Rana, 38, Mohammad Apple, 29, Ibrahim, 28, and Imran, 30.
Police also seized DB police uniforms, a
walkie-talkie, toy pistol, handcuffs and baton, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police Joint Commissioner Abdul Baten in a press briefing at DMP Media Centre on Sunday.
The police official said, “The arrested persons used to track clients at different banks and then informed their accomplices waiting outside over mobile phone. The cohorts later picked up the victims into a vehicle introducing themselves as DB men and then took away the money.”
If they found the victims short of cash, they detained them and demanded ransom from their families, threatening them of legal consequences, the Joint Commissioner said.
The gang used to commit the crime with a microbus and dropped the victim in an isolated place after snatching the cash.
Using the fake identities, they cheated people in different districts, particularly in Dinajpur, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Bogra and Sirajganj, he said.
“On primary interrogation, they admitted their involvement in extortion. Rana was a suspended corporal rank staff of Bangladesh Army and he is the ringleader of the gang,” he said.
A case was filed against them with Ramna Model Police Station, he further said.
Detective Branch of Police in a drive detained four persons, including a sacked army personnel, when they were extorting money from people using fake identities of Detective Branch (DB) of Police in the city’s Moghbazar Wireless Gate area on Saturday night.
The detained persons have been identified as suspended army personnel Shafiqul Islam Rana, 38, Mohammad Apple, 29, Ibrahim, 28, and Imran, 30.
Police also seized DB police uniforms, a
walkie-talkie, toy pistol, handcuffs and baton, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police Joint Commissioner Abdul Baten in a press briefing at DMP Media Centre on Sunday.
The police official said, “The arrested persons used to track clients at different banks and then informed their accomplices waiting outside over mobile phone. The cohorts later picked up the victims into a vehicle introducing themselves as DB men and then took away the money.”
If they found the victims short of cash, they detained them and demanded ransom from their families, threatening them of legal consequences, the Joint Commissioner said.
The gang used to commit the crime with a microbus and dropped the victim in an isolated place after snatching the cash.
Using the fake identities, they cheated people in different districts, particularly in Dinajpur, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Bogra and Sirajganj, he said.
“On primary interrogation, they admitted their involvement in extortion. Rana was a suspended corporal rank staff of Bangladesh Army and he is the ringleader of the gang,” he said.
A case was filed against them with Ramna Model Police Station, he further said.
