Joynal Abedin Khan :
A Sub-Inspector of Banani Police Station was caught red handed by the mob during the snatching of gold bars from a businessman in the capital’s Alubazar intersection area on Monday night.
They also detained a cohort of the police officer along with five gold bars and handed over them to the Bangshal Police Station after a severe beating.
The arrested men were identified as Ashraful Islam, SI of Banani Police Station, and his cohort Abdur Razzak, sacked member of Bangladesh Air Force, Mafiz Uddin Ahmad, Deputy Commissioner (Lalbagh Division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told The New Nation on Tuesday.
Police also detained the businessman Rezaul Karim for interrogation in this connection as he lacks necessary documents to keep the gold, the DC said.
Two separate cases were filed on the allegations of snatching and gold smuggling, the police officer said, terming the incident ‘to rob the robber’. All the accused were sent to jail on Tuesday afternoon.
Locals held them from Fulbaria area in the capital and handed them over to Bangshal Police.
Bangshal Police Station’s SI Helal Uddin said, “Ashraful and Razzak went to a jewellery shop in Alubazar intersection area and tried to arrest Rezaul Karim in a case with Banani Police Station. At one stage, they snatched 900 kilograms of gold from him. Hearing his hue and cry, locals rushed there and held them. Later, the locals handed over them to the police.”
The SI and his cohort were sent to jail after showing a snatching case while the businessman was accused in a smuggling case due to lack of necessary documents to carry the gold bars, the police official said.
Police are investigating the cases, he said.
