National Desk :
Police arrested four people on charge of their involvement in a snatching case and recovered parts of the snatched goods from different areas on Wednesday. The arrested were identified as Rejaul Karim, 34, Kartik Chandra Shaha, 45, Shimul Hossain, 30, and Samir Uddin, 38.
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police Commissioner Abu Kalam Siddique held a press conference on the snatching issue at his office conference hall saying the arrested persons snatched medicines worth around Taka 1.70 lakh from medicine-trader Mehedi Hassan, 28, in Laxmipur area in Rajshahi city on March 21.
He said the trader with the medicines was heading towards Chapainawabganj riding on an auto-rickshaw. Subsequently, Mehedi Hassan lodged a case with Rajpara Police Station in this connection on the same day.
“We have ascertained their identities after analyzing video footage captured by close circuit cameras,” Kalam Siddique said, adding police arrested the rickshaw driver Rejaul Karim first from Baharampur area in Rajshahi city yesterday.