Staff Reporter :Police have nabbed eight men from Dhaka’s Shyampur area and seized 135 mobile phone sets from them in small hours of Wednesday.They are Md Jalal, Md Yousuf Howlader, Md Bachchu Sardar, Md Kuddus, Md Nekbar Mia, Md Kamruzzaman, Md Swapan, and Md Kamal Sheikh, police said.They were arrested from in front of RK Chowdhury School near Postogola intersection of Shyampur at night, Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s JointCommissioner Monirul Islam said this in a press briefing at DMP Medi center in the city on Wednesday afternoon.Later, police recovered 135 mobile phone sets from a shop, Shah Telecom, at Jatrabarhi’s Samiullah Plaza after interrogating the ‘robbers’. “They confessed during preliminary interrogation at police custody that they were members of organised gang of robbers,” the DMP spokesman said.”They (the arrested) used to break into shops and steal goods in Dhaka and in surrounding areas.” A similar incident took place in Shyampur few days ago, said the Joint Commissioner.The accused were arrested before on charges of theft and robbery, he added.
