Staff Reporter :
Police shot at a drug peddler in “self-defence” while conducting a raid in the city’s Kadamtali area early Tuesday.
The man has been identified as Pichchi Falan, 28. He is undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical
College Hospital under Police guard, police said.
He is a member of local gang ‘Billal Group’ and accused in seven to eight cases, said Kazi Wazed Ali, Officer-in-Charge of Kadamtali Police Station.
“Getting information that Falan and several others were holding a clandestine meeting on the WASA Road, Kadamtali, a team of the local police went there around 2:15am. Sensing police presence, Falan and his cohorts hurled crude bombs at police, forcing the latter to retaliate with gunfire that left Falan bullet-hit, ” the OC said.
However, though he was arrested, his accomplices managed to flee the scene, the OC added.
Police recovered four crude bombs and 2,200 pouches of heroin from the spot.
Police shot at a drug peddler in “self-defence” while conducting a raid in the city’s Kadamtali area early Tuesday.
The man has been identified as Pichchi Falan, 28. He is undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical
College Hospital under Police guard, police said.
He is a member of local gang ‘Billal Group’ and accused in seven to eight cases, said Kazi Wazed Ali, Officer-in-Charge of Kadamtali Police Station.
“Getting information that Falan and several others were holding a clandestine meeting on the WASA Road, Kadamtali, a team of the local police went there around 2:15am. Sensing police presence, Falan and his cohorts hurled crude bombs at police, forcing the latter to retaliate with gunfire that left Falan bullet-hit, ” the OC said.
However, though he was arrested, his accomplices managed to flee the scene, the OC added.
Police recovered four crude bombs and 2,200 pouches of heroin from the spot.
