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| 3 Rab men held on extortion charge, Tk 7 lakh recovered |
| 2009-07-25 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Police arrested three Rab personnel Thursday night on charge of snatching Tk 10.86 lakh from a man threatening to kill him in crossfire. After the arrest police recovered around Tk 7 lakh from the arrestees. The victim was Tajul Islam Hiron, 30, marketing manager of Fair Advertising at RK Mission Road in the capital. The arrestees were assistant superintendent of police Shoeb Ahmed and sepoys Sagar Chandra and Shahidul Alam of Rab-3. The authorities concerned have suspended the three Rab personnel. They were produced before a Dhaka court, which sent them to jail yesterday. Sub-inspector of Motijheel Police Station Tajul Islam who is also the investigation officer of the snatching case said, on his way to Rampura on a bus Hiron was intercepted by the Rab personnel at Kamalapur around 8:15pm Wednesday. They picked him on their jeep and took him to Doyel Square on Dhaka University Campus, he added. The Rab men then snatched Tk 10.86 lakh from Hiron saying they had saved him from crossfire at which he would have been killed, the IO said, adding that thereafter the Rab personnel took the victim to different places of the city and at one stage they released him. He said at the time of occurrence one of the Rab men was in uniform while the other two were in casual outfit. Hiron filed a case in this connection with Motijheel Police Station the next day. He was asked to come to Rab-3 headquarters to identify the Rab personnel following the filing of the case. On his identification the Rab authorities handed the elite force men over to police. Police yesterday produced the arrestees to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court, which directed to send them to jail. Contacted, Maj Khairul Amin of Rab-3 said in preliminary investigation they found their involvement in the snatching and suspended the three personnel. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 ok, how much is that in American money? |
| Posted by: abu do you love 2009-07-25 21:54 |