The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

Detective Branch (DB) police seized huge quantity of fake electric cables worth about Tk 600,000 from two unauthorised factories at Shyampur in the city yesterday.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of plainclothes police raided the house of Hashmat Ullah at Bat Tola in East Shyampur at about 2:30 am. They arrested Aynal Hossain, 28, Mehedi Hasan, 25, Shahidul Islam, 25, and Mohammad Sohel alias Sony, 20, from two rooms of the house-one used to make spurious BRB cables and another Eastern cables.

Meanwhile, another team of DB police Friday morning arrested nine members of a gang of muggers, including its ringleader, who used to target people withdrawing money from banks.

On a secret information, the DB police arrested gang leader Abdur Rob alias Aangul-Kata Roba, 50, Abbas, 42, Rubel, 22, Rafiqul, 37, and Zakir, 32, from in front of Pir Yemini Market in the city at about 10am.

A DB official said Abdur Rob was earlier arrested on more than 40 occasions for various criminal activities, but managed to get release from the court.