Md Joynal Abedin Khan :
At least 50 armed snatching gangs are roaming about the connecting roads and streets to railway stations, bus and launch terminals and other parts of city from evening to morning by dodging checking points and surveillance of different patrol teams of law enforcing agencies, Police Headquarters sources said.
The muggers also sometimes tactfully use the fake uniforms, arms, stickers of vehicles of detective members of police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Army as nobody get the chance to create any bar during snatching, they said.
The women passengers and newcomers are easily victimized by the mugging gangs during depredation and attending the railway stations and bus and launch terminals at night (from evening to morning) as people rarely move across the city, according to them.
The snatchers also have alleged link with a section of law enforcers, ruling party men, drivers and night guards, they added.
On December 18, Arafat, a six-month-old baby, died falling from his mother’s lap, when his/her mother was being mugged in the city’s Doyaganj capital. He/she was in the lap of her mother who was riding in a rickshaw at Doyaganj area in the city around 7:00am to visit her sister’s residence.
Meanwhile, a woman died after muggers dragged her several feet on the street while trying to snatch away her hangbag near Sobhanbagh mosque in Dhanmondi area on October 24. The victim, Ayesha Ripa, 27, a resident of Lalmatia area, suffered severe injuries in her head and other parts of her body.
Earlier, another gang of muggers, riding a private car with sticker of detective barnace of Police, swooped on Shafiqul Islam and his wife Kakoli Biswas when they just got down from a bus at from Gaibandha on their way home around 5:45am on December 27.
Mostafa Emran Sakib, a high school teacher of a Dhanmondi School, was stabbed and robbed by eight to 10 armed snatchers in front of Pirjangi Mazar near Kamlapur Railway Station around 5:00am on January 1.
A second year student of Jagannath University, Khandaker Abu Mia, fell prey to muggers near his home in the capital’s Bahadursha park area around 6:00am on December 31and lost his laptop after being stabbed by muggers .
Alauddin, a trader of Jatrbari area, alleged that a local gang of muggers snatched his mobile phone on gun point in his head just at 50 yards distance from a Jatrabari Police patrol team.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah said all-out security measures have been taken in the capital and its outskirts with deployment of a large number of law enforcers.
Alongside uniformed police, plainclothes detectives are moving around the capital to catch the criminals mainly muggers, Aggyan-party (dope party men) and robbers, the DMP chief said.
Soheli Ferdous, AIG (media) of police headquarters said that snatchers carry out their operations in a tactfull manner and rapidly escape the scenes. But patrol police stay far away from the occurrence place at that time.
The AIG has cited different limitations of police to curb the growing snatching incidents.
Masudur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner (Media and Public Relations Department) of the DMP, said that police caught at least 50 muggers as they were taking preparation for committing snatching.
Police in separate drive detained hundred of fake DB men, RAB members and Army personnel with firearms, bullets, walkie-talkies and a private cars from their possession.
At least 50 armed snatching gangs are roaming about the connecting roads and streets to railway stations, bus and launch terminals and other parts of city from evening to morning by dodging checking points and surveillance of different patrol teams of law enforcing agencies, Police Headquarters sources said.
The muggers also sometimes tactfully use the fake uniforms, arms, stickers of vehicles of detective members of police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Army as nobody get the chance to create any bar during snatching, they said.
The women passengers and newcomers are easily victimized by the mugging gangs during depredation and attending the railway stations and bus and launch terminals at night (from evening to morning) as people rarely move across the city, according to them.
The snatchers also have alleged link with a section of law enforcers, ruling party men, drivers and night guards, they added.
On December 18, Arafat, a six-month-old baby, died falling from his mother’s lap, when his/her mother was being mugged in the city’s Doyaganj capital. He/she was in the lap of her mother who was riding in a rickshaw at Doyaganj area in the city around 7:00am to visit her sister’s residence.
Meanwhile, a woman died after muggers dragged her several feet on the street while trying to snatch away her hangbag near Sobhanbagh mosque in Dhanmondi area on October 24. The victim, Ayesha Ripa, 27, a resident of Lalmatia area, suffered severe injuries in her head and other parts of her body.
Earlier, another gang of muggers, riding a private car with sticker of detective barnace of Police, swooped on Shafiqul Islam and his wife Kakoli Biswas when they just got down from a bus at from Gaibandha on their way home around 5:45am on December 27.
Mostafa Emran Sakib, a high school teacher of a Dhanmondi School, was stabbed and robbed by eight to 10 armed snatchers in front of Pirjangi Mazar near Kamlapur Railway Station around 5:00am on January 1.
A second year student of Jagannath University, Khandaker Abu Mia, fell prey to muggers near his home in the capital’s Bahadursha park area around 6:00am on December 31and lost his laptop after being stabbed by muggers .
Alauddin, a trader of Jatrbari area, alleged that a local gang of muggers snatched his mobile phone on gun point in his head just at 50 yards distance from a Jatrabari Police patrol team.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah said all-out security measures have been taken in the capital and its outskirts with deployment of a large number of law enforcers.
Alongside uniformed police, plainclothes detectives are moving around the capital to catch the criminals mainly muggers, Aggyan-party (dope party men) and robbers, the DMP chief said.
Soheli Ferdous, AIG (media) of police headquarters said that snatchers carry out their operations in a tactfull manner and rapidly escape the scenes. But patrol police stay far away from the occurrence place at that time.
The AIG has cited different limitations of police to curb the growing snatching incidents.
Masudur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner (Media and Public Relations Department) of the DMP, said that police caught at least 50 muggers as they were taking preparation for committing snatching.
Police in separate drive detained hundred of fake DB men, RAB members and Army personnel with firearms, bullets, walkie-talkies and a private cars from their possession.
