Staff Reporter :
Police in a drive detained at least six persons, including a woman, from the city’s Badda area on Tuesday Morning. They were involved with extortion identifying themselves as personnel of detective branch (DB) of Police.
The arrested persons were identified as Md Alauddin, 35, Md Selim, 32, Md Jahangir Alam, 45, Md Emdad, 32, Nikul, 27, and Masuma Akhter, 27, police said.
SM Jahangir Alam Sarker, Acting Deputy Commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said that a team of DB led by Mahmuda Afroz Lucky, a Senior Assistant Police Commissioner, conducted the raid in Badda area on an information and cracked them down in the morning.
During the primary quizzing under police custody, the gang confessed that they had been involved in criminal activities like extortion threat and treachery in disguise of police for a long time, the police official said.
Legal action would be taken against them in this regard, he added.
Police in a drive detained at least six persons, including a woman, from the city’s Badda area on Tuesday Morning. They were involved with extortion identifying themselves as personnel of detective branch (DB) of Police.
The arrested persons were identified as Md Alauddin, 35, Md Selim, 32, Md Jahangir Alam, 45, Md Emdad, 32, Nikul, 27, and Masuma Akhter, 27, police said.
SM Jahangir Alam Sarker, Acting Deputy Commissioner (media) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said that a team of DB led by Mahmuda Afroz Lucky, a Senior Assistant Police Commissioner, conducted the raid in Badda area on an information and cracked them down in the morning.
During the primary quizzing under police custody, the gang confessed that they had been involved in criminal activities like extortion threat and treachery in disguise of police for a long time, the police official said.
Legal action would be taken against them in this regard, he added.
