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BSS, Syedpur

Detective Branch (DB) of Nilphamari Police and Syedpur thana police arrested five members of an organised gang of inter-district electric-cable and transformer lifters and seized huge illegal items from WAPDA Bypass Mour area of Syedpur town in the small hours of Monday.

Police said, the joint police team conducted a raid there and arrested Majnu Mian, 28, Mizanur Rahman, 25, Golam Robbani, 25, Hamidul Islam, 30, and Sultan, 35, while they were planning to lift electric transformers from a nearby area. Police also seized huge equipments used for stealing transformers from their possessions.

A number of transformer-lifting, electric cable lifting and other criminal cases are pending against them with different police stations in the region, the sources said.