DMP arrest three more over bus-robbery in Uttara

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)'s Tejgaon zone detective brunch (DB) has arrested three more robbers in connection with a bus-robbery held on the night of 20 January in front of Abdullahpur Petrol Pump under Uttara West police station, reports BSS.

The arrestees are - Md Sumon Islam, Md Kabir Hossain and Md Shahin Alam. Shahadat Hossain Suma, an additional deputy commissioner (DB) of Tejgaon Division Police, confirmed the matter today saying that the detectives arrested them in separate raids in Dhaka and Gazipur on Tuesday night. They were produce before the court on Wednesday.

So far, a total of 19 peoples have been arrested in connection with the robbery.

Earlier on 20 January, Shafiqul Islam, a resident physician at a Tangail hospital, and his friend got on a bus from Abdullahpur area in Dhaka on their way to Tangail where they were robbed.

Later, the victims filed a robbery case with Uttara West police station. The Tejgaon zone team DMP were given the charge of the investigation.

During the preliminary interrogation, the detainees confessed about the bus robbery.