The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

A mobile phone of a Thai female passenger was stolen at Zia International Airport on Friday. A police official who was also her co-passenger was blamed for this theft.

The complainant is Piath Sarapak de Costa.

Airport immigration officer Nazir Hossain Dewan said that de Costa and police officer Md Mohiuddin Faruque, both coming from Thailand by a Thai Airways flight, had quarrelled over the 'theft'.

An intelligence officer said the Thai woman had accused Mohiuddin of stealing the phone set and slapped Mohiuddin who had been claiming himself to be a police officer.

Airport officials intervened and Mohiuddin was made to give the woman a mobile phone set from his pocket.

Mohiuddin, an assistant superintendent of police (ASP), working at the National Central Bureau at the Police Headquarters, were returning from an Interpol seminar held in Thailand.

Airport police released him after interrogation, police said.

De Costa had come to Dhaka with her Bangladeshi spouse.

The high authorities of police denied the allegation of theft against the police officer.

He said the accused officer was not on the scene at the time of the incident.