Md Joynal Abedin Khan :
The snatching incidents have increased in the city and its adjacent areas in the last ten days through the tight security measures of the law enforcing agencies.
The muggers snatched huge money in cash, a privet car and two auto-rickshaws and ornament and other valuables from the people by shooting and dragging them.
At least 23 people, including seven bullet-hit, received severe injuries that already has been created a panic among the city dwellers.
About 28 cases of mugging were lodged with different police stations in the last ten days, Police and victims sources said.
Besides, many victims did not file complains with the police stations as they have no confidence to return their lost things by complaining with cops. As result, police have no real statistics of such as mugging incidents, they said.
However, Police officials could not arrest not a single person in connection with the snatching incidents, according to them.
Following the incidents, Police on Friday launched a 10-day special drive to check the snatching incidents in the capital. They added.
In this context, Dilruba Shapna, a city dweller, said that her android mobile was mugged by armed muggers
in the city Shewrapara area on Tuesday evening.
Earlier, muggers took away Tk three lakh after shooting Nila Zaman in the city’s Kamlapur area on Monday morning.
On February 12, a gang of snatchers stabbed a jewelry trader with machetes and took away Tk 32,000 from him in the city’s Sayedabad area.
On February 10, two traders were beaten, stabbed and mugged by miscreants at Tikatuli early in the morning. The victims are Alam Mia, and Shafiqul Islam, fish traders and live in a rented residence in the city’s Kaptanbazar.
Besides, miscreants snatched Tk 12 lakh from a man named Sajib by wielding arms in front of Builders Bhaban in New Market Thana on February 7.
In the same day, muggers shot a man named Moniruzzaman by stopping his motorcycle in Dhaka University campus.
On February 6, an armed-gang robbed Tk six lakh from three passengers by shooting them in a broad-day light after stopping a mini-bus in front of Jahangirnagar University on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway. The bullet injured men were identified as Sanwar Hossain, 40, his two business partners Abul Hossain, 39, and Tutul Mia, 30.
On February 5, muggers snatched Tk 500,000 from a mother and her daughter after firing shots at them in broad daylight at the city’s Uttara. The bullet-hit women, Shahna Karim and Natika Rejwana Karim were admitted to a city hospital.
Muggers shot a readymade garment (RMG) staff and snatched away Tk two lakh at Banasree on February 4. The injured was identified as Mukitul Islam.
Abdul Baten Joint Commissioner of the Detective Branch Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), said, “Law enforcers are now working to catch muggers.
The illegal small firearms have become widespread recently which also increase threats of such crimes, the police official said.
We are hunting for the professional snatchers and their cohorts,” the Joint Commissioner said.
DMP Deputy Commissioner (Media and Public Relation) Masudur Rahman admitted that street crimes had increased recently.
‘We have asked the city dweller to inform police and take escort when they carry amounts,’ the DC said.
In a query, he said that some consecutive the snatching incidents had created a panic among the inhabitants of the capital.
“We have not seen any crime-free society in the world. As a result, crime-free country will never build up. So we are trying to control on crimes in the city,” he said.
