The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

A Saudi expatriate Ripon lodged a mugging case against police with the Tejgaon Industrial Police Station in the city yesterday.

He alleged in his FIR that a uniformed policeman and few other unidentified persons snatched Saudi Rial 80,000 equivalent to Tk 16 lakh, his passport and new model Nokia mobile phone from him at Mohakhali Bus Terminal on Thursday.

Ripon, son of Saimuddin of Kishoreganj, recently returned from Saudi Arabia.

He reached the capital from his hometown by a bus of the Bhawal Transport to exchange the foreign currency. He complains in the FIR that when he left the bus a policeman handcuffed him and dragged him on to a police van. They also bind-folded him with a black cloth.

On the moving van the policeman and his plainclothes accomplices searched his body and took away his money from him and dropped him at Savar from the van.

Lutfur Rahman Officer in Charge of the police station said, "We are trying to arrest the culprits connected with the mugging. There could be others involved in the snatching we are also investigating that."